The year was 2020 and spring in the United States was warm. But that spring was not like any other for Elon Musk. The creator of SpaceX and Neuralink He had a very deep longing and was anxious. His life was completely transformed with the arrival of the first child he had with the Canadian singer. Grimes (whose real name is Claire Boucher). In May of that year, he was born X Æ A-12.
Although the entire world recorded controversy around the event due to the uniqueness of its name, composed of unusual alphabetical references and numbers, Musk was happy. His number 9 son touched the technology entrepreneur with her “ethereal sweetness” until today and they became inseparable.
The presence of who today is known as x calms and charms Elon from birth. Musk had wanted that child so much that he took him with him everywhere: meetings, factory tours, video calls, conferences and even parties on a weekday.
From conventions and conferences in different parts of the world to parties on a Monday night, child X is a great companion to his father. It’s just that his son wakes up different side, more present and sensitive of the technological entrepreneur. Who is this child, the great weakness of one of the most influential people in the world?
According to the writer Walter Isaacson in the magnate’s biography, Elon Musklittle X shares numerous activities with his father, awakening his warmer profile.
For example, X spent his time sitting on his father’s lap during extensive meetings when he was just a few months old.
On other occasions, when tesla and SpaceX. In his crawling stage, solar panels and turned the rest corners of Twitter (now X, like its name) into its personal gaming space. And, also, he would talk while his father had late-night work calls.
Elon and X not only spend time together, they also watch rocket launch videos and again. The little one even managed to learn in an unusual way. Before knowing how to count to ten starting from 1, his process was reversed. He started from ten in countdown, as detailed in Musk’s biography, perhaps as the countdown is done before the takeoff of a rocket.
The truth is His interaction was always very particular.
Musk and Grimes resorted to fertilization in vitro to conceive X, although their original intention was to become parents of a girl. Even while they were preparing to attend the event Burning Man, In 2019, they chose a feminine name, Exa, inspired by the supercomputing term “exaflops,” which represents the ability to execute a quintillion calculations per second.
However, the fertilized egg they implanted turned out to be male. This situation, as described in the billionaire’s biography, left them undecided about choosing a male name until the day their son was born.
After the birth, two controversies would break out. While Grimes gave birth to X, Musk took a photo of the singer’s cesarean section. What did he do with that unique record? She passed it on to numerous friends and family. Grimes’ reaction was not what Elon expected. She, horrified, asked everyone to delete it.
“Was the Asperger of Elon manifesting in a big way. “He couldn’t even understand why something like that would bother me,” Grimes says in the book.
The name started a new controversy. Elon Musk and Grimes explained that their son’s name, X Æ A-12 includes a reference to the Archangel-12 reconnaissance plane, represented by “A-12″, for which the couple was especially fond.
“That he fights with information, not with weapons. The third name is always a battle, as Elon wants to eliminate them because he thinks it is too much. I would put about five names, but the agreement is on three,” the Canadian singer was able to explain about the A-12.
For its part, the letter “X” represents “the unknown variable,” as Grimes explained, while “Æ” is a character that the singer has said represents ‘love and/or Artificial Intelligence’. “Emi way of writing in Elvish AI (love and/or artificial intelligence),” Grimes said.
Due to naming regulations in California, which prohibit the use of numbers in names on birth certificates, the name was modified slightly to X AE A-Xiimaintaining the essence of the original but adjusting to legal requirements.
A week later, Musk’s older children went to see their father and X. Saxon, his son with autismhe was especially excited because he loves babies.
As the magnate’s biography explains, the distinctive feature of the relationship between his son X and him is “very Musk.” What does it mean? “They were closely united, but at the same time—and paradoxically—in a certain way separated; They appreciated each other’s presence, but They respected their personal space“, it reads.
In turn, Isaacson maintains that Musk was never overprotective and that “X was never clingy or dependent. “There was a lot of interaction, but not a lot of hugging.”
The controversy over the name was not the only one. The relationship with the singer Grimes took place between 2018 and mid-2022. Both parties filed lawsuits to obtain parental rights over their children: X Æ A-Xiinow four years old; Exa Dark Sideræl, two (conceived by surrogate); and Techno Mechanicusjust a few months old.
The legal dispute between Musk and Grimes It captured media attention immediately. Everything escalated at the time of the release of Musk’s biography, when Isaacson posted photos of the twins he had with Shivon Zilis. Singer Grimes also accused Shivon of blocking her from the networks and assured that Musk’s new relationship had “completely destroyed her family.”
And he added in the same thread on the X social network: “Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or please answer my lawyer. “I have never been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, even though the situation has completely destroyed my family.”
After an exchange, they reached an agreement.
Little X is great company for Elon and, according to Grimes, He is the “protected” and their relationship is “very fluid.” So much so that he participated in different significant events related to his father’s companies from a very young age.
For example, Musk’s recognition as “Time Person of the Year” in 2021 and SpaceX meetings. He was also present at a conference in Miami, where the new content moderation policy of the social network that Musk bought was discussed. Sitting on his lap, he paid attention throughout the talk.
In the midst of this legal process for the custody of his three minor children, in which they sued each other for the custody of X Æ A-Xii “X”, Exa Dark Sideræl “Y” and Techno Mechanicus “Tau”, Elon Musk showed a high profile attending events.
That happened when he went accompanied by his “favorite son” to an American football game in Massachusetts, where The Black Knights of the Army were victorious over the Navy Midshipmen.
Sitting on his father’s shoulders, Before this occasion, they were also shown in presentations by SpaceX and in another public event: the Formula 1 United States Grand Prixin Texas, where Musk resides.
“I think it is important to have children to create a new generation. It’s as simple as it sounds: If people don’t have children, there won’t be a new generation.“said Elon Musk with his son X in his arms last December at a forum organized by the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Rome. The billionaire appeared before the audience with X on his shoulders and soon moved into his arms to begin the words.
X even accompanied him to a party at night in early April. Despite it being a rainy Tuesday night, the little “chosen one” and Musk went to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the screening of a new PBS documentary series, A brief history of the future.
According to The New York Times, that night Musk did not refrain from talking about the future. “I think we are currently teaching kids in school to hate America or to question whether America is good,” the tycoon said. The event then continued a few blocks from the Met, at the Lobster Club, a brasserie Japanese in Midtown.
Little teslawalked all over the place and laughed while his father talked with Ari Wallach, the host of the series. It seems that the adventures are going to continue.
