Elon Musk says SpaceX is putting top Starship and Starlink engineers to work on Grok (www.businessinsider.com)

Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX is reallocating some of its top engineers from the Starship and Starlink projects to enhance its AI chatbot, Grok. This strategic move is part of SpaceX's efforts to accelerate its competitiveness in the AI landscape, particularly as the company aims to create groundbreaking AI models. Musk noted that the ongoing improvements to Grok are being bolstered by engineers from Cursor, the AI coding startup SpaceX recently acquired for $60 billion. Grok 4.5 is currently in private beta testing at both Tesla and SpaceX, with plans to release new models trained from scratch each month throughout this year. This development is particularly significant as it highlights SpaceX's commitment to advancing AI capabilities, especially in the wake of challenges faced by its xAI division. By leveraging expertise from the Starlink and Starship teams, alongside advanced technologies like supercomputing power, SpaceX aims to reshape the AI market, which Musk estimates has a vast total addressable market of $28.5 trillion, primarily driven by AI. This initiative could position SpaceX as a formidable player in the AI space, competing directly with giants like OpenAI and Google.