SpaceX has apparently shown investors a prototype of a “handset-like” AI device, despite Elon Musk claiming the reporting is “utterly false”.
This comes from The Wall Street Journal, which says that the prototype is sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone. This makes it sound like it could be something between a small touchscreen phone and a Rabbit R1. This was shown to investors before SpaceX went public and told them that it’s at an early enough stage that the design could still change.
SpaceX and its sister company Tesla definitely have the manufacturing expertise to pull those off, as well as access to the chips they’d need to power it. SpaceX has also been showing signs that it wants to get into wireless by launching Starlink Mobile. Though all three carriers have declined to make an MVNO deal with Musk.
This prototype is apparently designed to run on its own proprietary operating system, instead of something like Android – which is open source, so SpaceX could use it however they like. It’ll also use integrated technology from xAI. It would prevent new devices like this from being trapped inside other companies’ platforms like Google and Apple.
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Musk’s comment about this being “utterly false” is quite interesting, to be honest. As this isn’t some rinky-dink website posting about this device, it’s The Wall Street Journal, which has a pretty stellar reputation. Perhaps SpaceX has already given up on this device, or moved in another direction?
Though, as we’ve seen from OpenAI and other companies, AI devices are the way of the future. Even Google is turning Android into an AI operating system these days, with things like Android Halo. So as much as we all hate seeing AI in everything, it’s going to happen, unfortunately.
But SpaceX needs to be careful, as the graveyard is already full of AI devices like this that have failed. The most popular one is Humane who later sold its assets to HP.
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