Elon Musk is building an AI giant — and Tesla will be central

I wrote in Sept. that Musk’s empire of companies could be looked at as a giant AI conglomerate with components all working to benefit each other.

X is a vital source of training data for xAI and it provides a consumer distribution channel. On that front, it makes it one of a small handful of foundation model companies with widely used consumer-facing products. While Grok performs well on some benchmarks, it still lags behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in state of the art models. Musk says…