SpaceXAi: Elon Musk renames the company behind Grok to please Donald Trump

Washington has officially stopped saying “artificial intelligence.” Since the September 29 decree, federal agencies must write “super intelligence,” or “SI,” and the administration no longer recognizes the old term in its documents. On Sunday, October 4, Elon Musk posted on X the laconic “No more AI. SI.“It’s better”, before confirming to a user that SpaceXAI would become SpaceXSI: “Yes, we will make that change”.

@XFreeze Yes, we will make that change

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2026

Three surveys, a UN speech and an executive order

The American president’s semantic crusade took shape in ten days… A blitzkrieg that is surprising even after the Stargate episode. From September 19 to 21, three polls published on Truth Social called on its users to rename the technology. “Super intelligence” won the final round with 65% of the vote, while “superior intelligence” came away empty-handed. On the 22nd, at the rostrum of the United Nations, Donald Trump explained that “the word artificial gives the impression that this intelligence is false, whereas it is not”, before concluding, admiringly: “it is actually astonishing”. On the 29th, the executive order made the new terminology official, with 60 days to produce a legal definition of “super intelligence”. Before the industry leaders, the president declared the same day: “This is not AI. It is SI. We officially changed the name today”.

The text binds only the federal administration, and no private company is required to follow it. Elon Musk thus becomes the first major business leader in the sector to announce that he is adopting the presidential terminology, on his own initiative.At this stage, no other AI giant has so much as mentioned a rename. On Sunday, Donald Trump further accelerated matters by handing the file to his intelligence chief, alongside a brand-new “Super Intelligence Force.”

A new name every three months

Founded under the name xAI, the company behind Grok was absorbed by SpaceX in February 2026, then renamed SpaceXAI on July 6. Three months later, another renaming is imminent, this time solely on the basis of an executive order that does not in fact require it. Musk added in passing that “SpaceX is a super intelligence company”. The wording fuels confusion between the space group and its subsidiary, to the point that several media outlets mistakenly reported that SpaceX as a whole was changing its name. At the time of writing, the switch has not happened: official accounts and the company’s pages still display SpaceXAI, and the announcement amounts to nothing more than a post published on X.

For Grok users, the same apps, the same models, the same subscriptions: the change will be reflected in the logos and official texts. In 60 days, however, Washington will have a legal definition of “super intelligence” on the table, while Europe continues to draft its regulations using the words “artificial intelligence.”Businesses that operate and sell on both sides of the Atlantic will have to learn to juggle with both dictionaries.

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