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Elon Musk
Founder and CEO at SpaceXAI
CEO and Product Architect at Tesla
Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX
Co-founder at Neuralink
Musk has made AI central across an unusually broad industrial empire: Grok and massive computing clusters at SpaceXAI, autonomous driving and humanoid robots at Tesla, and brain-computer interfaces at Neuralink. He co-founded OpenAI, later launched xAI as a rival, and folded xAI and X into SpaceX in 2026.
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