Musk Says SpaceXAI Will Become SpaceXSI, Trump's Order Supplies the Word

President Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 29 instructing the federal executive branch to stop saying "artificial intelligence" and start saying "super intelligence." Five days later, Elon Musk said he would do the same with his own company's name.

Musk, the chief executive of SpaceX, said on X on Sunday, Oct. 4, that SpaceX's AI unit, SpaceXAI, will be renamed SpaceXSI. Asked by a user about making the switch, Musk replied, "Yes, we will make that change," according to Reuters. In a separate post that morning he made the same point in shorthand, dropping AI for SI and saying the new term was better. Outlets rendered the punctuation of that post differently, so it is paraphrased here.

Musk said he would do it. He did not say when. Reuters reported that the SpaceXAI account on X had not been changed, that Musk offered no further detail, and that the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. As of this week the branding still reads SpaceXAI. At least one site, tech-insider.org, has run a headline saying the rename has already happened, which goes further than what Musk said.

What the order actually does

Executive Order 14434, titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence," was published in the Federal Register on Oct. 2 at 91 FR 63129. Its core instruction is in Section 1: "the executive branch shall use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI.'"

Section 2(a) applies that to official correspondence, public communications, agency websites, reports and policy documents, to the maximum extent the law allows. Section 2(b) carves out the obvious problems: nobody has to go back and rewrite old regulations, prior presidential actions, contracts, grants or historical documents.

Section 3(a) says "Super Intelligence" and "SI" mean exactly the same technologies already defined as "artificial intelligence" under 15 U.S.C. 9401(3). There is no new technical definition and no new regulatory trigger. Section 4(c) adds that the order creates no enforceable rights, and Section 4(d) puts the publication cost on the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The order binds agencies, not companies. Nothing in it requires SpaceX or anyone else in the private sector to rename a product.

One real deadline sits in Section 3(b)

The part of the order with teeth, such as they are, gives the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology 60 days to submit proposed legislative language establishing a federal definition of super intelligence. That clock runs out Nov. 28. The proposal has to assess whether the existing statutory AI definition should be modified, expanded or superseded, recommend conforming amendments to statute, and suggest further executive action.

That is where a naming exercise could turn into something with legal weight, because a statutory definition is the hook on which future regulation hangs. Congress would still have to act. Until then, the order changes what agency press releases say.

The framing did not come out of nowhere. Trump used "super intelligence" language in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September. The White House also convened leaders of major technology firms around the signing to sign a parallel industry agreement, according to a client alert from the law firm Freshfields. Musk spoke to reporters outside the West Wing after a superintelligence luncheon at the White House the same day the order was signed.

The third name in a year, or the second

SpaceXAI has not been SpaceXAI for long. Musk's xAI was folded into SpaceX and renamed earlier this year, a change reported by BeInCrypto as having taken effect July 6 — roughly 90 days before Sunday's post. That date rests on a single outlet and is worth treating cautiously. Outlets also disagree on whether SpaceXSI would be the unit's second or third name inside twelve months.

The unit is the home of Grok and of X itself, and an aggregation summary from Ground News describes Grok as competing with products from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft. Musk also posted that "SpaceX is a super intelligence company," a line carried by the site Not a Tesla App.

A few other claims floating around deserve a flag. Reports of a jump in SpaceX shares since the June 12 IPO, a Morgan Stanley price target and a description of Musk's net worth trace back to a single crypto-news outlet and have not been independently confirmed. A report that Trump introduced leadership for a new "Super Intelligence Force" over the weekend likewise rests on one source. The identity of the X user who prompted Musk's reply is also single-sourced.

What to watch is simple enough: whether the @SpaceXAI handle, the domains, the Grok app and any corporate filing actually change, and whether the other companies that signed the September agreement follow. The next hard date on the federal calendar is Nov. 28.