Elon Musk: In the next 5 years, AI could become SpaceX's biggest source of value. Musk during an internal SpaceX talk: Our AI revenue might surpass all other SpaceX revenue as early as September and could significantly lead in Q4. Many people still think of SpaceX as a rocket company, but what Musk sees is the next-generation infrastructure: Rockets are responsible for sending computing power into space, solar energy provides the power, and AI consumes these resources to transform them into intelligence. He even believes that in the future, the scale of digital intelligence could far surpass biological intelligence, and AI will eventually become so powerful that humans won’t be able to simply control it. So the question becomes: Since we can’t control superintelligence forever, can humanity influence the values it develops as it grows? This is also the core logic behind Grok. Musk stated that SpaceX will train Grok using all the company’s information, allowing it to inherit SpaceX’s knowledge, philosophy, and values. In a way, humanity is like the parent of AI. What’s even crazier is that SpaceX is laying the groundwork for space-based AI computing. Musk believes that while AI training will still primarily happen on Earth in the future, AI inference could move into space. By the end of next year, if we achieve gigawatt-scale AI, the revenue potential could reach $30–50 billion. Rockets, satellites, solar energy, AI computing power—these industries, which once seemed independent, are actually part of a single chain in Musk’s vision: Turning the sun’s energy into intelligence. If this path proves viable, SpaceX’s future competitors might not just be Boeing or NASA, but also OpenAI, Anthropic, and the next generation of AI infrastructure companies. This is what Musk sees as the gateway to an interstellar civilization.