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Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Exited
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Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking, internally, about buying the leftover customer files of startups that already went under.
Key facts
- They got around 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, decades of employee files, all headed into an AI training pipeline
- SpaceX released Grok 4.5 in July as its first model since the xAI merger closed, with a second Musk-owned deal, the $60 billion Cursor acquisition, and a delayed new version of Grok coming up
- Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking, internally, about buying the leftover customer files of startups that already went
- Chapter 11, the bankruptcy process that lets a failing company liquidate its assets to pay off debt, treats a customer database the same way it treats office furniture
Summary
SpaceX's AI unit held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational data from failed startups to train Grok. The approach echoes Google's $10 million bankruptcy-auction win for Spirit Airlines' business records. SpaceXAI told staff in August it would train Grok on the entirety of SpaceX's own internal records, with Musk telling employees the model would effectively absorb who they are. The discussions are happening inside SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division born in February when SpaceX merged with xAI.