"Verrrry interesting!"
First thought was, "I wonder how he's funneling social security and treasury money into this!"
But even if it's just his own economics, or his overriding vision of controlling the world through AI AND owning a huge propaganda machine in tandem with the " #Truth " network of #disinformation and corruption....

It's all consistent with his "X" obsession - one he shares with Sir #TrumpVirus - #omnipotence - but he has the $$$, and now the power tool. So the thin-slice for me:

“xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach,” Musk wrote on X

The data, the models, it all computes... world dominance, AI, open the trunk, HAL...