Fun Elon Musk Quiz: The World’s Richest Questions

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp makes medical devices. It’s developing a brain implant that will allow people to walk again and cure neurological diseases. According to documents reviewed by Reuters and published on Dec. 5, 2022, Neuralink is under federal investigation for possible animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that animal testing is being rushed, resulting in needless suffering and death.

Elon Musk and his first wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, had twins in 2004, followed by triplets in 2006, before divorcing in 2008. They officially share custody of their children. Musk reportedly had another set of twins in November 2021, with Shivon Zilis, a director at one of his companies, according to court documents published on July 6, 2022. The world’s wealthiest person also has two children with Claire Boucher, better known as the musician Grimes.

Why was Musk’s child in the news in 2022?

One of Musk’s twins, the former Xavier Alexander Musk, having just turned 18, has filed a request to change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson. Along with her new gender identity, she explained, “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” according to court documents available online through PlainSite.org.

Elon Musk values Twitter at $20 billion, according to an internal memo reported by the Information on March 25, 2023. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter in October 2022, meaning Twitter lost more than half its value in just half a year. However, Musk acknowledged it as an overpayment at the time of the deal. The company’s value dropped throughout the year as advertisers pulled out of the platform.

Elon Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, was one of the signatories of an open letter published by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit backed by Musk, on March 29, 2023. The letter urged AI labs to stop training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest large-language model. It suggested a six-month pause or government suspension to jointly allow independent experts to develop and implement shared safety protocols for AI systems.

Who co-signed the AI-stopping letter?

The letter was also signed by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author; Andrew Yang, entrepreneur, and former US presidential candidate; and more than 1,000 other tech leaders.

Elon Musk gave his AI project that he says will try to understand the nature of the universe (and avoid annihilating humans) the name TruthGPT. He announced his plan to create his own rival to OpenAI’s Chat-GPT in an interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on April 17, 2023. Musk also said he created the X.AI company in Nevada and approached AI researchers to join his team. Optimus is the name of Musk’s humanoid AI bot that he revealed at Tesla’s AI Day event in August 2022, which aims to replace workers at routine, repetitive jobs. No connection to Donald Trump’s Truth Social.

George Soros. Photo: Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

George Soros, a Holocaust-surviving Jewish-born investor, and philanthropist, is often the target of far-right, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. According to a regulatory filing, Soros Fund Management LLC sold all of its 2.5 million shares of Tesla Inc. in the first quarter of 2023. It also bought shares of Lucid Motors Inc., a competitor in the electric vehicle market. This prompted Musk to tweet on May 16, 2023: “Soros is a traitor to humanity and a threat to our planet,” comparing him to the X-Men’s civilization-crushing Magneto.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook), and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, have agreed to fight each other in a cage match after exchanging challenges on social media. The feud started when Musk tweeted he was “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg responded with “Send me the location” on Instagram. Musk then suggested “Vegas Octagon” as the venue, referring to the fenced-in area used for Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bouts. The fight date and time are not set. However, Musk said it “might actually happen” and admitted it could end badly for him, as he has not started training yet. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg has trained in mixed martial arts (MMA) and recently won jiu-jitsu tournaments. The fight was eventually canceled, as Zuck felt Musk was not serious enough.

Elon Musk, the tech mogul behind SpaceX and Tesla, announced the formation of his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, on July 12, 2023. Musk, known for his ambitious and futuristic projects, aims to use xAI to “understand reality” and delve deeper into the realm of AI. The announcement was made on Twitter, and Musk also had a July 14 Twitter Spaces talk to discuss the venture in more detail.

Elon Musk, the SpaceX/Tesla maestro, sustained an injury he said might delay his proposed cage fight several years ago at an exhibition sumo match. It was brought up when his cage fight proposal with Zuckerberg heated up with a suggested date of August 26. Musk revealed he might need an MRI and surgery before stepping into the ring (or cage) with Zuckerberg, who said it’s time to move on to some more serious opponents.

Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, and part-time digital drama king, pointed fingers at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for allegedly trying to “strangle” the platform. This is after ADL’s Director, Jonathan Greenblatt, tweeted on Aug. 31, 2023, about a “productive conversation” with X’s CEO, Linda Yaccarino, about addressing the platform’s hate speech. The post was met with backlash by white supremacists, leading to the trending hashtag #BanTheADL. And during this storm, Musk chose to voice his choked-up sentiments about the ADL with a lawsuit.

Walter Isaacson chose the straightforward title “Elon Musk” for his biography of the tech magnate. The book topped Amazon’s bestseller list before its Sept. 12, 2023, release. Isaacson’s “Elon Musk” delves into the real-life escapades of this visionary entrepreneur. One of the significant revelations in the book is about Musk’s alleged involvement in averting a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian ships. According to the biography, Musk turned off Starlink near Crimea, disrupting Ukraine’s strike against a Russian fleet. As a result, the drones, loaded with explosives, lost connectivity and washed ashore without causing damage.

Techno Mechanicus Musk, affectionately dubbed “Tau,” was born in June 2022. It’s his third child with musician Grimes. Tau made his grand debut not in a tweet or a press release but in the pages of Elon Musk’s new biography, as chronicled by Walter Isaacson. While X Æ A-13 might’ve been the talk of the town in 2020, and Starship continues to aim for the stars, it’s Techno “Tau” Mechanicus who’s the latest buzz in the Musk household.

When Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter/X, tweeted his agreement with a controversial statement accusing Jewish people of “hating white people” in November 2023, major companies like IBM, Apple, Lionsgate, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Paramount Global, Warner Bros Discovery, and The Walt Disney Company announced they have stopped advertising on the platform. Soon after, X announced it was suing Media Matters, an organization monitoring hate speech in social media, for defamation.

On Jan. 22, 2024, Elon Musk, the headline-hitting CEO known for his ventures in space and social media, swapped his usual high-tech surroundings for the historical and solemn grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi German death camp located in Oswiecim, Poland. Musk’s visit included a short memorial ceremony, where he laid a wreath at the wall of death. His visit was ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was part of his scheduled appearance at a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association in Krakow, Poland.