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Elon Musk says he wants to merge Tesla, SpaceX
The tie-up could create a $3.5 trillion company and give Musk access to Tesla cash for SpaceX’s heavy AI spending, analysts said.
- On Tuesday, October 20, Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX and Tesla established special committees to explore a potential merger, saying the idea has "lot of merit."
- Integrating the two businesses could coordinate AI computing, chip development, and robotics across complementary operations; Musk cited cooperation opportunities in "superintelligence software, chip design, the Terafab obviously, robotics, mass-to-orbit with the Starmind constellation, connectivity."
- Valued at about $3.5 trillion, a combined entity would rank among the world's largest companies. Jerayr Haleblian, merger expert at the University of California, Riverside, said the proposal has "sound logic" to support it.
- Governance remains a major hurdle because Musk leads both companies; he stated he cannot participate in committee deliberations as a "conflicted party," and any deal requires a 50 percent vote among Tesla shareholders.
- While SpaceX shares rose more than 8 percent following the announcement, Musk cautioned against certainty, stating "there's no guarantee that they will" reach agreement and that assuming a merger is inevitable "would be overstating it.
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Elon Musk is pushing for the creation of a new trillion-dollar company with a market capitalization that would exceed the value of companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Chief Strategist Valtteri Ahti assesses the likelihood of the merger and the potential winners and losers.
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