This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company's merger with Musk's rocket maker, SpaceX, and the combined company's anticipated IPO. You might think that xAI employees ought to be fascinated with achieving AGI, using deep learning models to disrupt traditional software companies, or simply bad wordplay like 'Macrohard.' But instead, Elon is going to the moon. After outlining plans to build AI data centers in orbit, the primary synergy between the two companies, Musk took the idea further. 'What if you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year'' Musk asked. 'To do that, you have to go to the moon'I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space.' In Musk's telling, the step beyond data centers orbiting Earth is even larger computers in deep space. And furthermore, Musk says the best way to achieve that is to build a city on the moon to manufacture space computers and hurl them into the solar system using a big maglev...
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