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Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
当然，把SpaceX和特斯拉揉在一起吧，谁在乎
Elon Musk's Mars narrative distracts from SpaceX's $40 billion Nvidia borrowing, so readers should weigh the credit risk against the merger's stated cosmic purpose.
Judgment
Tesla and SpaceX special committees must decide whether to recommend a merger while SpaceX adds $40 billion of Nvidia-chip borrowing; they must weigh Musk’s control and pay incentives plus credit risk against claimed superintelligence cooperation.
Basis
Musk said on SpaceX’s earnings call that “there’s a lot of merit to combining” SpaceX and Tesla and “a lot to be gained from cooperating on developing superintelligence software.” Elizabeth Lopatto reports both companies formed special committees to discuss a merger, while SpaceX is about to borrow another $40 billion for Nvidia chips. She frames the bull case as Tesla self-driving and humanoid robots plus SpaceX LLMs and data centers, but says human life in space lacks technical support, so autonomous AI robots become the logic step. The numbers cut another way: SpaceX’s Q3 AI division revenue was $7.56 billion; “SI solutions & infrastructure revenues” hit $7 billion, more than three times the prior quarter; Cursor added $608 million. DA Davidson’s Gil Luria says most of the rest was likely compute rented to Anthropic and Google, with Grok probably contributing less.
- Nvidia-chip borrowing$40 billion
- SpaceX AI division Q3 revenue$7.56 billion
- SI solutions & infrastructure revenue$7 billion
- Cursor added revenue$608 million
Unclear The source does not give merger terms, valuation, committee membership, timing, or how the $40 billion borrowing is secured or priced.
Next Watch for SpaceX or Tesla filings and committee disclosures specifying merger terms and the $40 billion Nvidia-chip financing’s lenders and covenants.