Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before a massive planned initial public offering for the business later this year.

The remote positions are advertised as 8.5-hour work days, compared to the typically grueling investment banking hours.

As with SpaceX, then, Mr Musk is gambling Tesla’s future on AI, and his belief that he can harness his existing businesses to dominate the technology. Plenty of doubters have scoffed at his grand ambitions before. But never has Mr Musk put so much on the line. ■

By Echo Wang and Joey Roulette Feb 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI in a record-setting deal that unifies Musk's AI and space ambitions by combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot.

The world’s richest man is betting on an AI-driven future of abundance, but top researchers warn his speculative futurism could leave you in dire straits.

“Just the very early stages of the singularity,” Musk posted on X on Saturday.

Elon Musk has become the first person in modern history to see his net worth cross $850 billion, according to the latest estimates published by Forbes, cementing his position as the richest individual in the world by a wide margin.

Nine Reuters reporters gave it a series of prompts to determine whether and under what circumstances the chatbot would generate nonconsensual sexualized images.