Elon Musk says SpaceX's AI revenue will outpace all its other products by next month

Aug 12, 2026 11:24 AM - 1 hour ago 4

Elon Musk arrives for the proceedings of against OpenAI held astatine Dellums Federal Building successful Oakland, California Tuesday, April 28, 2026.

Elon Musk said SpaceX's AI gross would transcend that of its different products. Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Elon Musk has predicted that AI will gain SpaceX much money than its different offerings.

On Tuesday, SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands signaling connected X that CEO Elon Musk held pinch employees, during which he said AI has go an "extremely important portion of SpaceX's future."

"Probably our AI gross — not probably, decidedly — our AI gross will transcend each different SpaceX gross astir apt successful September, for illustration adjacent month," Musk said successful his speech.

"And will importantly transcend each different SpaceX gross successful the 4th quarter," he said.

The executive past shared his ambitions for the training of Grok, SpaceX's family of ample connection models.

"We're going to beryllium training Grok connected the sum full of each SpaceX information," he said. "So successful a way, it'll beryllium trained connected you."

He said SpaceX labor would beryllium "the parents of the AI," and it would inherit their thoughts, ideas, and beliefs.

He did not supply specifications connected really Grok would beryllium trained connected employees. For instance, Meta rolled retired a programme successful April to train its AI models connected its employees' keystrokes, a determination that drew awesome backlash and has since been paused.

SpaceX went nationalist successful a historic IPO successful June, propelling Musk to go the world's first trillionaire. The institution past rebranded arsenic SpaceXAI aft acquiring xAI, and has a bid of eager AI projects successful the works.

For one, SpaceX is readying to motorboat information centers into abstraction to train and tally AI models. Musk said SpaceX is readying to build exclusively pinch Nvidia, pledging to usage only Nvidia's precocious Vera Rubin architecture for its compute.

SpaceX besides acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 cardinal successful June.

Apart from its AI projects, SpaceX's different commercialized offerings see its abstraction motorboat vehicles for illustration Falcon 9 and Starship, its Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon spacecraft, and its satellite-network product, Starlink.

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