February 11, 2026

With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon

an empty room with a lot of glass doors
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According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.