SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish - BERITAJA

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has shown investors a prototype of a “handset-like” AI device, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The prototype is reportedly sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, making america wonderment if it’s thing betwixt a mini touchscreen telephone and a Rabbit R1. SpaceX reportedly showed the instrumentality to investors and stakeholders earlier it went public, and told them it’s astatine an early capable shape that the creation could still change. 

Musk has denied the reporting, calling it “utterly false.”

SpaceX, alongside sister institution Tesla, does person the manufacturing expertise to propulsion disconnected wide producing a bunch of AI devices — not to mention entree to the chips needed to powerfulness immoderate on-device compute. SpaceX has besides signaled that it’s keen to grow into wireless, pinch Starlink Mobile arsenic a imaginable competitor to Verizon and AT&T. One expert moreover went arsenic acold arsenic to estimate that T-Mobile aliases AT&T would make good acquisition targets for the rocket builder, though specified a acquisition would, undoubtedly, beryllium pricey.

It’s besides not clear if SpaceX is conscionable throwing spaghetti astatine the wall aliases if it will effort to really wide nutrient and marketplace specified a device. But 1 point that seems clearer is that if OpenAI is doing it, Musk would, perhaps, want to effort to do it better.

As we know, OpenAI is moving pinch Apple’s erstwhile main creation serviceman Jony Ive connected an AI instrumentality that CEO Sam Altman has claimed will beryllium more serene than an iPhone. Reports from past autumn propose the institution has been struggling to get the specifications right, and OpenAI precocious brought connected different Apple executive to perchance thief move things along. News dropped past week that Paul Meade, Apple’s VP successful complaint of the Vision Pro headset, has joined OpenAI’s hardware team. 

Like OpenAI, SpaceX’s prototype is reportedly designed to tally connected a proprietary operating strategy and merge exertion from xAI, Musk’s AI institution that SpaceX acquired earlier this year. This would forestall these caller devices from being trapped wrong different company’s platforms (like Google’s Android). But also, the intent appears to besides beryllium to create thing new, pinch autochthonal AI interfaces. That said, the graveyard is crowded pinch the unsuccessful launches of AI devices from companies for illustration Humane and Rabbit. A institution wanting to waste an AI device, does not equate consumers wanting to bargain specified a thing. Yet.