Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.

Elon Musk plans to establish a township, Starbase, for SpaceX employees in South Texas, near the company’s rocket launch site. A petition has been filed demanding a separate municipality Starbase. The proposal includes a small community of about 500 residents,

Elon Musk may be taking new steps to form Starbase, a new municipality in coastal South Texas for SpaceX employees.

Nevertheless, the deals — and xAI’s developer and consumer-facing products — have driven xAI’s revenue to around $100 million a year. For comparison, Anthropic is reportedly on pace to generate $1 billion in revenue this year, and OpenAI is targeting $4 billion by the end of 2024.

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has raised $6 billion from investors, including US venture capitalists, NVIDIA, AMD, and investment funds from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. This funding will be used to develop products for billions of users and advance research.