SpaceX and xAI could join forces ahead of Elon Musk’s plan to take the former public later this year, according to ReutersElon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX and his artificial intelligence start-up xAI are reportedly mulling a merger, a move that would bring SpaceX’s rockets and its satellite Internet subsidiary Starlink under a single umbrella with xAI—which oversees the social media platform X and the chatbot Grok. The two wings of Musk’s sprawling tech empire could merge ahead of a plan to take SpaceX public later this year, according to Reuters, which cited an anonymous source and recent company filings. A merger with xAI could boost Musk’s plan to use SpaceX’s still-in-development Starship rocket to launch orbital AI data centers, experts have speculated. Data centers in orbit, however, would have practically unlimited access to solar energy—although such hardware would also come with its limits. SpaceX and xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.