Elon Musk is a South African businessman, billionaire and philanthropist. He founded the company Zip2 in 1995, then Paypal in 1999. He then founded SpaceX which manufactures rockets, Starlink which offers Internet connections by satellite, Tesla which makes electric cars, SolarCity and Tesla Energy which are in the generation of energy from solar panels and solar thermal, Neuralink which tries to make communication possible via brain waves, The Boring Company which makes tunnels for road transport. He finally acquired Twitter which he renamed to X. In 2023, he created xAI in order to compete with ChatGPT.
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