Musk reckons SpaceX and xAI are a logical pairing: the former will launch data centres into space, which the latter will use to brew leading-edge AI. The logic checks out. But such thinking could be used to merge xAI with anything, because every industry, from cars and supermarkets to medicines and banking, is also betting on AI to soup up its profit. Why not fuse xAI with Tesla? Or Walmart? Following SpaceX’s blueprint, AI may now be a skeleton key that unlocks all kinds of deals in apparently unrelated industries.