Musk sent to
tweet On May 24, she quietly gave birth to a child with Shivon Zilis, who works for Musk, posting “US birth rate below minimum sustainable level for ~50 years” at the top of her 100 million-follower Twitter account. The company hopes to develop an implantable computer chip for the human brain, according to documents obtained by Business Insider.
The outlet obtained court documents to change the children’s legal names to include Musk’s last name and Zilis as part of their middle names. CNN Business could not independently confirm the contents of the documents, but a Travis County, Texas, court document obtained by CNN Business showed that the name change application was initially filed in April 2022 and granted in early May – matching the dates in the documents published by CNN Business. comes Business Insider. In addition to the seal of the court, those documents have the signature of Musk as the father and Zilis as the mother.
Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent to representatives of Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink.
Zilis’ professional ties to Musk date back to at least April 2016, when he was a consultant at OpenAI, according to his LinkedIn profile. It is one of the musks
co-founders OpenAI, a non-profit research lab with a mission to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
In August 2020, Musk a
live event intended to demonstrate the progress of the Neuralink technology he had implanted in a pig. About a year later, Neuralink
the monkeys claimed Once the company’s chips were implanted in their brains, they could play Pong. But recently, Neuralink has had to address concerns about its testing practices, denying claims of animal cruelty, confirming that monkeys died as part of tests earlier this year.
According to Zilis’ LinkedIn, he has worked for both Tesla and Neuralink since May 2017; and currently serves as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink. In 2020, Zilis became a board member at OpenAI. Before working at the companies Musk runs, Zilis worked at the Bloomberg venture capital fund (which
put him down Forbes 30 under 30 for venture capital in 2015), as well as IBM. He has also served on the boards of at least two other AI-related organizations. Zilis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is the second set of twins Musk is believed to have fathered. Musk and his first wife, Justine, had twins in 2004 before welcoming triplets two years later. (The two, who were married from 2000 to 2008, lost their first child; author Justine, who famously wrote about what marriage was like and divorced for Musk.
Marie Claire magazine in 2010.) Musk had two children with musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes. Their
a second child was born December 2021 via surrogate.
— CNN’s Rachel Metz contributed reporting
