SpaceX Secretly Unveiled New AI Device to Investors. Is It a Phone or Not?
The idea of an AI-powered device that's not a smartphone is weird, but not unheard of. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, SpaceX has already shown investors an early prototype of one.
The report says that Elon Musk's SpaceX -- which includes the social media platform X and the artificial intelligence startup xAI -- has developed a handset-like device that's sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone and runs a proprietary operating system that integrates xAI's own technologies. The device reportedly runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, a common feature in many Android phones today.
On Thursday, Musk publicly denied the existence of such a device, calling the claims "utterly false" in a post on X.
In February, Musk publicly stated that a phone was not being developed. Earlier, during an event last October, Musk said, "the idea of making a phone makes me want...
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