Elon Musk welcomed his twelfth child earlier this year. The Tesla, SpaceX and X owner confirmed the birth to the website Page Six, denying reports that it was a “secret” birth. The baby’s mother, whose name and sex were not revealed, is Shivon Zilis, director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, a startup founded by Musk in 2017.
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The new baby, whose name and sex have not been disclosed, is Musk’s 12th child. According to Forbes, the billionaire’s fortune is estimated at more than $213 billion. This is Musk’s third child with Shivon Zilis, who has had a prominent career in venture capital and artificial intelligence before joining Neuralink, according to Business Insider.
Shivon Zilis is director of operations and special projects at Neuralink, a startup founded by Musk in 2017.
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Neuralink has been developing a brain-computer interface aimed at helping people with traumatic injuries operate devices using only their thoughts. In January, the company implanted electrodes in the brain of the first human patient.
Zilis has worked closely with Musk for years. In 2016, he joined OpenAI, a nonprofit co-founded by Musk, where he served on the board of directors until 2023. In addition to his work at Neuralink, he also collaborated with Tesla from 2017 to 2019, supporting the Autopilot teams. and chip design, according to a specialized site.
In 2021, during an AI conference in Canada, Zilis described Neuralink as “the most complicated but also fascinating thing I have ever encountered in my life.” He added that AI will be one of the most transformative technologies and stressed the importance of managing it properly for the good of humanity.
Part of the couple’s private life became public when Musk brought his biographer, Walter Isaacson, to discuss the threat of AI at his home in Austin, Texas. On that occasion, a photo of Zilis and Musk with their twin children, Strider and Azure, born in 2021, was released.
According to Business Insider, Zilis is originally from Ontario, Canada, and has been an ice hockey athlete for a long time. She was a goalkeeper for the Yale University team in the United States, where she graduated in 2008 in Economics and Philosophy. She has also shared images of herself surfing, zip lining and ice climbing on social media.
After graduating from Yale, Zilis worked in financial technology at IBM for three years. Later, she worked at the venture capital fund Bloomberg Beta, where she led investments in machine learning, and she was included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2015 in the venture capital category.
Musk’s children:
- With Justine Wilson: Griffin, Vivian, Kai, Saxon, Damian and Nevada
- With Grimes: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno
- With Shivon Zilis: Strider, Azure and the new baby
The birth of Musk’s 12th child was first reported by Bloomberg on Friday. In an interview with Page Six, Musk denied rumors about a supposed “secret” birth, stating that the arrival of his child was no secret, since his friends and family were aware of the pregnancy. Musk considered that issuing a public statement about the birth would be “strange.”
According to Page Six, Musk did not provide details on the exact date of birth and Shivon Zilis declined to comment. Twins Strider and Azure were born in 2021, just a month before Grimes, Musk’s ex-wife, gave birth to Exa Dark Sideræl through a surrogate mother.
At the time, Exa was also described as Musk’s “secret baby,” being “outed” after crying during Grimes’ interview with Vanity Fair. Musk and Grimes are also parents to 4-year-old X Æ A-12 and Techno.
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