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As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has highlighted AI as the tentpole of the company’s future, projecting a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity that rivals the total value of all US economic activity.
Key facts
- SpaceX reported a net loss of $4.3 billion in the first quarter of 2026, while spending more than $10 billion on primarily AI infrastructure along with rocket and satellite hardware, according
- An AppMagic survey of 260,000 US consumers and workers who use AI found that 0.174 percent paid to use Grok in the second quarter of 2026, The Wall Street Journal reported
- Similarly, Citigroup has suggested that the global AI market may surpass $4.2 trillion by 2030
- The firm’s survey of 500 people—also highlighted by The Wall Street Journal—showed reported Claude usage among respondents’ companies jumping from 21 percent to 48 percent between 2025 and 2026
Summary
SpaceX described its traditional space launch and satellite business as playing a supporting role to its fledgling AI business in financial disclosures that preceded an expected initial public offering of company stock. The SpaceX S-1 filing claimed that the company has “the largest actionable total addressable market in human history” and highlighted AI as representing most of that opportunity at an estimated $26.5 trillion market—a number that comes close to rivaling US nominal GDP that stood at nearly $32 trillion in the first quarter of 2026. It is unclear what timeframe SpaceX is using for its addressable market estimate, but that is significantly larger than third-party estimates for the global AI market.