Elon Musk says SpaceX is putting top Starship and Starlink engineers to work on Grok

Elon Musk said SpaceX is diverting a few dozen top Starlink and Starship engineers to improve Grok, signaling that the company is prioritizing AI development more aggressively after its recent IPO and xAI integration. Musk said Grok 4.5 is already in private beta at Tesla and SpaceX, and that new models will be released monthly this year, trained from scratch. The article frames this as part of SpaceX’s broader push to catch up in the AI race, especially against OpenAI and Anthropic, while leveraging Cursor engineers and SpaceX supercomputers. Although the story is not directly about SpaceX’s core launch or satellite businesses, it suggests a strategic shift of talent and capital toward AI infrastructure and model training, which could affect investor expectations around post-IPO growth, valuation, and long-term business mix.