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AI Just Saved SpaceX: Record $14.6B Quarter, First Profit and a Tesla Merger

Oct 22, 2026 · 25m

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Four months ago, half of Wall Street wrote off SpaceX's record IPO as massively overvalued. Last night it reported $14.6 billion in revenue in a single quarter and the first profit in its history. The surprise is where the money came from: AI. SpaceX has become the number one neocloud, renting compute to Anthropic and Google for billions of dollars a month, and its AI business now out-earns Starlink. Ejaaz breaks down the xAI pivot, how Elon brings 200,000 GPUs online a month, the power bottleneck, and Elon's projection of a $500 billion to $1 trillion annual run rate in 2027. Then the bigger picture: the SpaceX and Tesla merger committees, Starlink and StarMind, where Tesla's cars and…