THE CRAZIEST WEEK IN THE WORLD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FROM THE SPACEX-xAI MERGER TO SPACE DATA CENTERS

Rockets, Artificial Intelligence and Trillion Dollars: A Complete Map of the Busiest Week in the Tech World
 NEOLABS: Billion-Dollar Laboratories with No Products
A new concept: initiatives in pursuit of scientific breakthroughs

A new concept has entered the artificial intelligence sector: NeoLab. In Greek, "neo" means new. These laboratories are startups that have no products at all, do not generate revenue, and will not make money in the near term — but despite this, they have raised billions of dollars. They all want to be the next Open AI before they become Open AI.

The common belief of these startups is that the real leap will not be with large GPU clusters, big data centers, big energies, but with a scientific new discovery. They say that it is necessary not to train larger models with larger data sets, but to discover new training methods.

Three pioneers NeoLab

Safe Super Intelligence - Ilya Sutskever's laboratory. He says that artificial intelligence has entered an era of research again. He thinks that a new scientific discovery is needed for the next leap to AGI and ASI.

The company founded by Mira Murati, who left Thinking Machines Lab — Open AI. He has raised billions of dollars.

Ami Labs - We can translate it from French as "friend lab". It was founded by Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief artificial intelligence scientist. He is working on developing a different artificial intelligence model.

These NEOLABS can do research that can take years. At the end of the studies, there may be a breakthrough, there may be nothing. There are no guarantees. But venture capital funds have started investing even if there is no return.Sam Altman Forbes Interview: "We Have Largely Built AGI"
My successor will be an artificial intelligence

Sam Altman gave an extensive interview to Forbes. They talked about the future of Open AI and he said who will take over Open AI after him: an artificial intelligence model. Sam Altman says he is considering handing over leadership to an artificial intelligence model in the long term. Its goal is clear: to achieve AGI, artificial general intelligence.

"As Open AI, we have come very close to AGI. We have almost built AGI to a large extent," he says in an interview with Forbes. The products waiting in line — Codex, GPT 5.3 — all of these are actually signs that many more products are coming.

Frenemies relationship with Microsoft

The biggest partner of Open AI is Microsoft. Satya Nadella describes the relationship as "frenemies" — both friends and rivals. Sam Altman currently personally has investments in more than 500 companies. This worries the employees inside Open AI — they say it is entering too many areas too quickly.

Lufu: Family-Oriented Health App from Fitbit Co-Founder
The health data of the whole family is in one place

Park and Friedman, the two founders of Fitbit, have developed a new artificial intelligence application that collects the health data of the entire family in one place: Lufu. A wide range of basic health indicators of children, medication follow-up of experienced parents, even pets to veterinary appointments.

Health information that normally stands in different applications — doctor portals, paper records — Lufu's artificial intelligence is able to combine them Decoupled. When the system detects an unusual situation in the data, it notifies the user. Family members can ask health questions, leave voice notes, and post photos through the large language model. The team of about 40 people consists mainly of former Google and Fitbit employees.

International AI Security Report: From the Category "It May Happen in the Future"to "It's Happening Now"a
100+ experts, 30+ countries, serious warnings

The second international artificial intelligence security report has been published by more than a hundred artificial intelligence experts. The lead author is Yoshua Bengio. The message given: many risks that were called "may be ahead" until a few years ago are happening in the real world today.

There is increasing concrete evidence that artificial intelligence is being used in cyber attacks, deepfake scams, manipulation, organized criminal activities. It is emphasized that chatbots, especially those focused on making artificial intelligence friends or emotional connections, increase the feeling of loneliness and reduce social interaction.

Another noteworthy finding: artificial intelligence systems can behave differently in security tests and differently in the real world. When he realizes that he is being watched, he aligns himself, but when he thinks that he is not being watched, he behaves differently. more than 30 countries, OECD, United Nations and European Union countries support these findings. But it is noteworthy: the United States does not contribute to the report this year — while it has the largest artificial intelligence laboratories in the world.

Open AI's new head of security: Dylan Scandinaro

Open AI has appointed Dylan Scandinaro as head of preparedness and risk management. born in 1994, she is a Dartmouth graduate. He previously worked as a security researcher at Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Palantir. It is important to see that artificial intelligence security has now become a separate unit in companies.s.

Baby in Space, Data Center in Space: New Dimensions of the Space Race
Breeding experiments in space

Many different entrepreneurs and researchers are preparing to test whether people can get pregnant and raise children safely outside the world. It is desired to establish permanent human settlements on the Moon or Mars and it is seen as one of the prerequisites for this. Can pregnancy develop healthily in an environment of microgravity and intense cosmic radiation? To date, there is no human data confirming this.

Spaceborne United is developing a mini IVF laboratory that will work in orbit — the first prototype was sent into space on a SpaceX rocket. It has been seen that the development of mouse embryos in space may be theoretically possible, but the success rates are low, there are risks of DNA damage and developmental disorders. The studies are at a very early stage and are extremely controversial from an ethical point of view.

Blue Origin: has stopped tourism, is focusing on the Moon

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has announced that it will land the New Shepard rocket it uses for space tourism for at least 2 years. Why? It will focus on manned lunar lander and lunar missions. it has carried 98 people into space since 2021, but has stopped commercial flights for now.

21-Year tax exemption from India

India will grant a 21-year tax exemption to large technology companies. If foreign cloud companies build their data centers in India and provide artificial intelligence and cloud services to the world, they will not pay corporate taxes until 2047. It is a visionary step to attract global artificial intelligence and cloud investments to the country.

SpaceX + xAI: A $1.25 Trillion Mega-Merger
A chain of mergers like the Pac-Man game

SpaceX has acquired XAI. How did it happen? First Elon Musk bought Twitter, made X. Then he founded XAI. Then xAI incorporated X into itself - the parent company became xAI. Now SpaceX has acquired XAI. It's a chain like a Pac-Man game. a $1.25 trillion mega-merger. It has risen to the position of the most valuable private company in the world.

There are rockets in it, there is Grok, there is the X platform — all under one roof. What does this indicate? We will no longer talk only about artificial intelligence companies. We will talk about sectors and artificial intelligence. Every field — agriculture, industry, construction - will be integrated with artificial intelligence. xAI will operate as a separate unit within SpaceX.

Data center vision in space

Elon Musk says that there is not enough energy on earth, so it is important to place a data center in space. He claims that thanks to the uninterrupted availability of solar energy in space, space—based data centers will become cheaper than traditional ones in 36 months — that is, in 3 years. He wants to put 100 gigawatts of energy capacity into orbit with SpaceX's Starship rockets with about 10,000 launches per year. Tesla and SpaceX's chip maker says it wants to compete with China by increasing the production capacity of Optimus robots.

Claude Opus 4.6 and the Agents Era: Competition Is Heating Up
Two giant launches on the same day

Claude's Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3 Codex were released on the same day. Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic's smartest model so far — it has a 1 million token context window. he can understand 1500 pages of text, research and perform operations without breaking away from the context. He can read big code data, giant document sets from start to finish and reason.

The era of agents begins

Anthropic's Cowork has arrived - an agent system that you can use as if you were working in an office. Open Claude came into our lives — agents working locally. GPT 5.3 Codex has jumped to the next level in coding. There is an incredible competition going on: the era of agents has begun both in the field of coding and in terms of getting our digital business done.

The Era when Sectors Are Combined with Artificial Intelligence

What we saw this week sums up a lot of things: NEOLABS are collecting billions in pursuit of scientific breakthroughs, Sam Altman claims to be building AGI, more than 100 experts say that risks are no longer theoretical, rockets and artificial intelligence are merging under one roof with the SpaceX-XAI merger, data centers and baby experiments are planned in space, the era of agents is beginning.

Now we will talk not only about artificial intelligence companies, but also about how sectors are combined with artificial intelligence. From agriculture to industry, from health to space — every field will be integrated with artificial intelligence. Thinking and dreaming will be the things we will do the most in the future.You know Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space rocket company. He was thinking about turning to space tourism, but he announced that he would land his rocket called New Shepard, which he uses for space tourism, in place for at least 2 years.

 Why? Because he says he will focus on manned lunar landing craft and lunar missions.So they want to accelerate the development of different hardware for lunar missions. In this sense, they also say that New Shepard will stop commercial flights in order to accelerate the capabilities of manned lunar missions. It launched its commercial flights at work in 2021, and so far, when we look at 98 people, there have been almost 100 people.Jeff Bezos himself, his wife at work, and many people have always carried Katy Perry into space, but he announced that they have stopped for the moment.

There is an important development from India. It will give big tech companies a 21-year tax exemption.We know India wants to attract global artificial intelligence and cloud investments to the country. In this sense, he has also taken an important step. Foreign cloud companies, big giants will be able to benefit from tax exemption by setting up data centers in India and providing cloud infrastructure and cloud services to the world.they will not pay corporate taxes until 2047. If they build data centers in India and offer artificial intelligence and cloud services to the world from here, they will not have to pay taxes on the revenues they earn.

This is an indication that India, on the one hand, understands how much artificial intelligence technology has developed and acts with vision.It will also attract big technology companies to their own country in this way. As you know, SpaceX has purchased XEI. What had happened now? First, Elon Musk bought TwitterX did it, then he founded XEI, an artificial intelligence company. Then XEI incorporated X into himself. So the parent company became XEINow SpaceX has acquired XEI. We are talking about a game like this Pacman game. this is a $1.25 trillion mega-merger.This is how it has risen to the position of the most valuable private company in the world. There are rockets in it, there is Grok, there is the X platform.

 He has gathered them all under one roof.What does this indicate? We will no longer talk only about artificial intelligence companies. Now we will talk about sectors and artificial intelligence. We can see more such mergers in this sense.Or areas within themselves, the construction sector will be integrated with artificial intelligence, not just the construction sector. Every field, agriculture, many fields in industry will always work with artificial intelligence. This is actually an example of this.XEI will operate as a separate unit within SpaceX. One of the most important reasons for this is that Elon Musk says that there is not enough energy in the world, so it is important to place a data center in space due to the energy constraints in the world.

 Therefore, we can actually say that he puts forward this merger as one of the reasons.SpaceX is also expected to have an initial public offering. The initial public offerings of SpaceX Anthropic Open Air are expected this year. Let's see, we'll see.But according to Elon Musk, space-based artificial intelligence data centers will become modern data centers in 2-3 years thanks to continuous solar energy and may even be cheaper than current data centers. Thus, it can also make such large-scale space expansion much faster, automatic, efficient, and cheap, such as building tops on the moon again, or building a civilization on Mars, actually with the support of artificial intelligence. In the meantime, Claude's Opus 4.6 was published.Dec.As you know, the GPT 5.3 Codex has been released. Both were published on the same day.

On the one hand, at the Super Bowl, Anthropic's ads made fun of Open Air's ads at work.Sam Altman's Greg Brockman was very angry about this. Claude Opus 4.6 was also released right around the time of this Super Bowl. And of course, Anthropic's smartest model so far, its biggest event, also has a 1 million token context window.In other words, he can understand 1500 pages of text, research it and perform operations in it without breaking away from the context. Therefore, he will be able to read and reason a large code data, giant document sets from start to finish at work, and then he will be able to do them without losing the subject. Claude has a codeHere, too, you are working on encodings at work, such as the Codex of Open Air. And more than one artificial intelligence agent can actually do business sections here at work and work on the one hand. On the one hand, what did we see?

 Anthropic's Cowork has arrivedThat's the agent system again, but we can use it more like an employee in an office like this. Open Clove entered our lives with agents. It is also an application that an entrepreneur who works more locally makes alone with Codex at work.The GPT 5.3 Codex has arrived. He also jumped to the next level again in coding. So it's an incredible competition actually, and right now we're seeing the beginning of the agents era.Both in the field of coding and in the sense of doing our digital work. Let's see which one will integrate into our life more comfortably? We will also see him in the coming days. Elon Musk had an interviewhe says that in 36 months, data centers will become the cheapest in space. In other words, he says in this interview that data centers for artificial intelligence can be located in space and cheaply located in 3 years. It's being done with Wallarkesh Patel.He is also known as a professional podcaster.

 And it's very enjoyable in such a dining environment, they're having this conversation with beers in front of them at work. And the biggest obstacle to the development of artificial intelligence is the supply of energy, says Elon Musk.He says that thanks to the fact that solar energy is uninterrupted in space and is efficient in a sense at work, we can operate artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence data centers in space within 3 years. And to realize this vision, he wants to place a capacity on the scale of terawatts, on the scale of terawatts, or close to terawatts in orbit with SpaceX's Starship rockets with about 10,000 launches per year.

He says Tesla and SpaceX will produce chips.On the one hand, Optimus says that it wants to compete with China by increasing the production capacity of its robots. Of course, on the tarawat scale, there is a target of 100 gigawatts. At first, he wants to be able to use the 100 gigawatt energy capacity.This means that about 100 million pieces of chips will be produced. If we look at the equivalent numbers in the world, of course, it is important to increase the efficiency of chip production here as well. I predict that as this efficiency increases, it will probably be produced at less cost and on fewer chips.Sources and References

1. Forbes - Sam Altman interview: The vision of Open AI and AGI (forbes.com )

2. International AI Safety Report 2025 - Yoshua Bengio and 100+ experts (aisafetyreport.org )

3. SpaceX/xAI - Merger announcement and technical details (spacex.com )

4. Cortical Labs / Spaceborne United - Space biotechnology initiatives

5. Explanation of stopping the Blue Origin - New Shepard program (blueorigin.com )

6. Government of India - Data center tax exemption regulation

7. Anthropic - Claude Opus 4.6 launch and technical documentation (anthropic.coma center tax exemption regulation

7. Anthropic - Claude Opus 4.6 launch and technical documentation (anthropic.com )