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ELON MUSK'S RELENTLESS AI PURSUIT HAS HIM ON T=
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Elon Musk's companies are=
trending towards convergence. SpaceX is
considering a potential merger w=
ith Tesla as well as xAI. A tie-up
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company h=
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the compute
capacity required for large-scale AI inference and data cente=
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applications for billions of users. They will be solar-powered and use=
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