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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought SpaceX made space rockets?

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

After the merger with xAI, that's about 22% of their business. The rest is AI. The brochure will tell you about reaching for the stars and living on Mars, but the main product is actually Grok.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which just goes to show you how bullshit the profit margins are on space travel when they gotta turn the business into a chat bot to be "profitable"

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean the only part of SpaceX making money is the space part, starlink

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

That's the part making revenue, we're unsure if it's making a profit.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was wondering why the stock price was so high. Makes a lot of sense now.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Funny way to put it. Since it really makes even less sense to be valued higher with twitter and grok added. Since they both lose money.