--- title: Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September,... description: Elon Musk told a SpaceX all-hands that the company's AI revenue will surpass all other revenue streams by September, requiring AI income to more than double... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/musk-says-spacex-ai-will-out-earn-rockets-by-september-and-be-trained-on-staff-nptnrl8uo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff | daily.dev og:description: Elon Musk told a SpaceX all-hands that the company's AI revenue will surpass all other revenue streams by September, requiring AI income to more than double... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/musk-says-spacex-ai-will-out-earn-rockets-by-september-and-be-trained-on-staff-nptnrl8uo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/npTNRl8Uo.png og:image:alt: Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Musk says SpaceX AI will out-earn rockets by September, and be trained on staff **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Elon Musk told a SpaceX all-hands that the company's AI revenue will surpass all other revenue streams by September, requiring AI income to more than double from $2.56bn to exceed the $5.25bn from connectivity and space products. Musk also announced Grok will be trained on internal SpaceX company data, including material from employees themselves, framing it as instilling good values into the model rather than a data grab. No details were given on what employee data will be used, how it will be collected, or whether opting out is possible, drawing comparisons to Meta's paused employee keystroke-tracking AI training program. The announcements coincide with the launch of Grok Bot, an AI agent product that needs behavioral training data to complete multi-step tasks like a human colleague. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much AI revenue does SpaceX need to generate to exceed its other product lines? SpaceX's AI revenue would need to more than double from $2.56 billion to surpass $5.25 billion, the combined total of its connectivity revenue ($4.29 billion) and space products revenue ($962 million) reported in the second quarter. Elon Musk stated this would happen by September, calling it definite rather than probable, with AI revenue expected to significantly exceed the rest by the fourth quarter. _Track how AI business claims like this hold up by following SpaceX's AI revenue story on daily.dev._ ### What happened when Meta tried training AI models on employee keystroke and mouse movement data? Meta began collecting employee keystrokes and mouse movements in April to train its AI models but paused the program in June after private conversations and performance data became visible across the whole company. This precedent raises concerns about SpaceX's similar plan to train Grok on data drawn from its own staff, since neither company has clarified consent or data-collection specifics. _Developers weighing employee-data AI training risks can follow how these programs play out on daily.dev._ ### What is Grok Bot and why does SpaceX need employee data to train it? Grok Bot is an AI agent product launched by SpaceXAI that operates its own cloud machine and signs into apps to complete multi-step tasks autonomously. Training an agent to work like a human colleague requires recordings of how humans actually operate computers, which is why SpaceX plans to train Grok on internal company information, including employee-generated data, rather than relying solely on internet text. _Anyone evaluating AI coding agents like Grok Bot can compare capabilities and training approaches on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [xAI burned $6.4B last year. 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