SpaceX reportedly working on an AI phone

https://www.theverge.com/science/960442/spacex-phone-prototype-elon-musk

by mandeepj • 21 days ago

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arbayi• 21 days ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20260701201606/https://www.theve...

ben_w2• 21 days ago

"Elon Musk denies a report about SpaceX’s AI phone prototype / The Wall Street Journal reports that SpaceX showed investors a ‘handset-like prototype’ that was slimmer than an iPhone.", did the headline change after submission?

mandeepj2• 21 days ago

They all always “deny”

ben_w2• 21 days ago

(a) not a reason to editorialise

(b) Musk is more famous for doing the opposite, saying he will totes do things that have no chance and in some cases are trivially easy to prove are impossible.

Zigurd2• 21 days ago

Everyone with a certain level of resources wants their own platform, if they don't already have one. The problem is they all underestimate the resource commitment it takes to possibly win at that game, despite having a lot of money to spend on it. And even if they do commit at Meta[verse] levels, they can end up with nothing to show for it, just like Meta.

I've been working on Android system programming and apps since before Android had a phone to run on. Even in those relatively early days when Amazon built a phone based on AOSP, I could tell that they didn't commit enough in areas like maps and navigation to challenge even a nascent Google-Android ecosystem.

Android is 10X more complex now, and will become even more so with on-device agents and related API's like AppFunctions. Apple has their own corresponding tech stack. Fighting against the OS native agents on those devices is going to be a fool's errand.

mandeepj2• 21 days ago

Absolutely! In case anyone else still have any doubt - Ask Microsoft !!

Starlink is the leverage that SpaceX have here. They could offer a cheap voice, data - national and international plans. And, could throw even more goodies in there.

Zigurd2• 20 days ago

Meh. If anything Elon is even worse than Zuck at making random big bets at the wrong scale, based on the desire to have a platform. Xai. Cyberetruck. And just so you don't think I have perfect hindsight, I'll predict that Starship is the wrong rocket.

Falcon is the model Y of rockets: competent, something that should've been evolved. But was too boring for Elon to pay attention. He could've had two product generations of moat, but he wanted to show that he's a strategic genius.

SpaceX reportedly working on an AI phone

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