SpaceX Reportedly Shows Investors AI Handset Prototype as Musk Calls Claim Utterly False
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 1
SpaceX Reportedly Shows Investors AI Handset Prototype as Musk Calls Claim Utterly False
2 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 1
Summary
The Wall Street Journal reported SpaceX showed investors and stakeholders a handset-like AI device prototype, described as slimmer and sleeker than an iPhone and still early enough for the design to change.
Musk directly disputed the report, calling it “utterly false,” leaving unclear whether SpaceX is actively developing consumer hardware or merely exploring concepts.
The reported device would run a proprietary operating system and integrate technology from xAI, which SpaceX acquired earlier this year, potentially keeping the product outside platforms such as Google’s Android.
SpaceX’s hardware and chip access through its own operations and Tesla, plus its Starlink Mobile ambitions, suggest a broader push into wireless and AI devices even as the market has already tripped up Humane and Rabbit.
The report also lands as OpenAI builds its own AI device effort with Jony Ive and newly hired former Apple hardware executives, sharpening the rivalry around post-smartphone AI hardware.