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Morning Edition · Monday, October 5, 2026Published at 2:00 AM EDT · New York
Musk says SpaceX's AI unit will rename itself SpaceXSI to match the White House's "super intelligence" order
The unit was formed in July after SpaceX's reported $1.25 trillion acquisition of xAI. The change would give it its second new name in about three months. It would also align a federal contractor's brand with executive-branch vocabulary.
Elon Musk, SpaceX's chief executive, said SpaceXAI, the artificial-intelligence unit of SpaceX, will be renamed SpaceXSI, according to AI Post. In posts on X early on Sunday, Musk wrote "No more AI," then "SI" and "It's better." When a user…
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