For the longest time, Elon Musk-led companies have been pretty unique and siloed.
Tesla made electric cars, and to a smaller degree, infrastructure for energy — think solar panels on your home roof.
SpaceX was even more ambitious; it launched rockets into space and found a way for them to self-land themselves too. In the same token, it offers satellite internet services thanks to these trips to space.
Musk’s newest business, X (formerly known as Twitter), was a “town square for the Internet.” Elon’s attempt at shaping and influencing what the world was talking about. It used those conversations to train a Grok chatbot, too. This company is now called xAI and expects to compete with giants like OpenAI and Claude.
But things have changed.Musk has hinted at a merger — not just between AI and humans for super-intelligence, but all his companies and their business goals. We know SpaceX sometime this year, an outcome you can bet on at sportsbooks like Bovada. But could Elon have something even bigger up his sleeve? He just might! Keep reading and we’ll explain.
Musk Trending Toward Convergence
“My companies are, surprisingly in some ways, trending towards convergence,” Musk posted on X in November 2025.
As silly as it is to source X posts — especially when Musk averages about a 100 a day, according to research at SportsBettingSites.com — it’s surprisingly needed in today’s age. In the past, analysts and biographers read diaries and letters. Today? It’s social media posts. After all, Musk hinted at his purchase of Twitter here first. And now he’s doing the same for his next big move.
Musk’s three major companies all seem to be converging toward artificial general intelligence and life outside of Earth. Seriously, it’s all one technology stack. This is not us saying it, it’s Musk in X posts and interviews.
Here’s how it works: Tesla’s solar panels are space-bound. Musk wants to put them on the moon to power data centers. Those data centers? Will be used to power xAI chatbots and agents… as well as the Tesla Optimus robot. That’s right, Tesla is also now in the humanoid robot industry, and it’s using AI to train and teach these machines to act and move as real humans do.
Speaking of AI, Musk has said Tesla will achieve AGI first, even over xAI. Not just to superman the robots he’s building, but also the self-driving cars that Tesla sells. It’s probably why Tesla invested $2 billion into xAI earlier this year. It’s pretty much all one company nowadays.
Tesla is developing a humanoid robot they’re calling Optimus. Former production lines for Tesla cars will be turned into facilities to mass-produce these consumer robots.
Combining Companies Is Elon’s Usual MO
If we haven’t sold you yet on this mega-merger, then maybe this will: Musk has a long history of doing this already. And we mean long!
Let’s go back to 2016, back when Musk’s reputation was more pristine and not tainted by forays into politics. At the time, he merged his Tesla and SolarCity companies. Remember earlier on when we said Tesla seeks cars and home solar panels? Well, it’s because of this merger.
Technically speaking, Tesla bought SolarCity for $2.6 billion in stock. But… it was not without controversy to shareholders. Many argued it was a bad deal since SolarCity was $1.5 billion in debt. To some, it was a lifeline for a CEO with a clear conflict of interest (Musk ran both companies). Anywho, the deal went through, and it positioned Tesla as more than just a car company, but an all-in-one energy ecosystem.
Now let’s discuss the cohesion between X and xAI that took place a year ago. Musk bought Twitter in 2022, then created xAI in 2023. Technically speaking, they still operate as different companies (there’s been no paid merger), but the two are almost one and the same. The Grok chatbot (made by xAI using Twitter’s data) is housed on X’s service and available to paying members only. Both companies solely depend on each other — xAI to use X’s data for training, and X to be valued as an AI company, not a social media one.
But… xAI was just bought by SpaceX. This is a real merger, and it happened in February 2026. It’s an all-stock deal, and reportedly, the combined company is worth a whopping $1.25 trillion. That would make it a top-10 most valuable company in the world. It’s private for now, but that leads us to our next section… Musk’s real endgame here.
Biggest IPO Ever?
SpaceX wants to hit the public market, and likely this year. If and when it does so, it’ll likely be the largest public offering in history, value-wise. As we mentioned, the joint SpaceX-xAI company was valued at $1.25 trillion when the deal finished. One trillion comes from the SpaceX side, while the rest comes from xAI.
Musk won’t say it out loud (a rare thing he’ll refrain from), but he likely wants to beat OpenAI to the public markets. Both are mega-hyped companies, but there might not be enough liquidity and money for both. Per reports, OpenAI is looking at Q4 to hit the public. Surely, whoever goes first will benefit immensely before the cash crunch.
But here’s an even more out there scenario: would Tesla and SpaceX ever merge? Both valued together would be around $2 trillion, around the same ballpark as Amazon and Alphabet. The only companies bigger? Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft.
To accomplish Musk’s grand vision of a multi-planetary species working hand-in-hand with AI-powered, super-intelligent software and hardware robots, it might just take all hands on deck in one company. It sounds crazy, right? But it’s Elon Musk we’re talking about. He dreams big and shoots for the sky (literally) more than any entrepreneur of this generation.
