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Berber Jin

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217 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Philosopher Whose Job Is Teaching AI to Be Good

So that's the open question that all the labs and people like Amanda in particular are trying to figure out right now.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

Yes.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

Not a lot of companies crossed the $1 trillion mark.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

That's a great question.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

First of all, there hasn't ever really been a company that looks like the way the new SpaceX will look like.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

Elon Musk essentially merged an AI research company that builds what Elon calls a truth-seeking AI chatbot

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

with a space company that sends rockets into space and has satellites that build global internet connectivity.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

So on the face of it, there isn't that much that ties the two companies together.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

This is very much an Elon Musk thing, but he has a very loyal shareholder base that has a lot of faith in him.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

He says he has famously never lost any of his investors any money, and he takes that pledge really seriously.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

This was actually a really Elon blog post.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

There are emojis in it and jokes that are very Musk-coded.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

See, he talks about why it makes a lot of sense to put data centers in space.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

He says, the only logical solution is to transport these resource intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

I mean, space is called space for a reason.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

Laughing emoji.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

In space, there's a very big source of power, that is the sun, and you need rockets to launch satellites operating those data centers into space.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

And if that is the case, SpaceX is the world's largest rocket launching company, and so therefore it stands to benefit a lot.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

That's the idea.

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Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion Megamerger

And it is fraught with a lot of engineering challenges.