SpaceX, the newly-public satellite internet company that also dabbles in rockets and CSAM-generating chatbots, might be building its own AI hardware. wall street journal Ahead of its initial public offering, SpaceX reportedly demonstrated a handheld AI device to investors that could put the company in a rare position similar to Rabbit, or someday, OpenAI.
Update, July 1, 2026, 4:20 PM ET: Well, he was fast. Within minutes of our article being published, Elon Musk responded to a post on X saying that WSJ The report is “completely false.” The remainder of this story below covers what was stated in the original article.
According to this device is thinner than iPhone WSJAnd is powered by one of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. SpaceX’s gadget reportedly runs on its proprietary operating system and is integrated with XAI’s services like the startup’s AI assistant Grok. Furthermore, it is unclear what SpaceX envisions this device to be, or whether it actually intends to sell it.
While Grok is readily available through the web, the X app, or the standalone Grok app, offering your AI assistant through someone else’s platform comes with some disadvantages. For example, SpaceX will have to share a portion of its subscription revenue with Apple for any subscriptions sold through the iPhone. It is also at the mercy of a given platform’s app store rules. To avoid those hurdles, Meta and others are trying to land their own hardware platforms rather than run their businesses on iOS or Android.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk isn’t particularly excited about the idea of building a mobile device, but the stars have aligned to at least make it possible. In July 2025, SpaceX partnered with T-Mobile to provide access to Starlink’s satellite network on smartphones. If it wanted to, it’s not hard to imagine SpaceX offering something similar for its own AI device.
So again, it’s best to take any new products involving Musk or any of his companies with a grain of salt. While SpaceX is certainly far ahead of Tesla and its promises of personal robots and self-driving cars, it’s entirely possible that this AI device was shown off just to get investors excited rather than signal some new direction for the company.
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