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SpaceX is actually really fucking successful, why would be destroy it by tainting it with shitty AI? Oh right, because he's a moron who does way too much ketamine.
I'm assuming you mean operationally but not financially? They wouldn't have to raise capital so much if it were financially so...
I'm using the success rate of the Falcon 9 rocket and how many launches they do as my metrics. If they're not doing well financially then they're making some questionable financial decisions.
Remember there’s the bit of spacex that runs a successful commercial rocketry program, but also the bit of spacex that keeps blowing up stupid giant rockets.
All of musk’s companies have to support one of his idiotic pet projects… tesla got the cybertruck, x got grok, spacex got starship. None of them can be stopped, because they’re his and he’s personally invested in them. His flunkeys can only make questionable financial decisions around those projects, because he will fire them if they don’t.
Tesla is struggling and is trying to sidestep into humanoid robotics (a different kind of stupid idea), x was always a money sink, and now elon is concerned that his ai waifu might die without an injection of sweet government cash. It isn’t clear he’s capable of giving a shit about the consequences of any of this.