According to a report by Bloomberg News, earlier this year, Elon Musk, the founder of Neuralink, a company that produces brain implants, welcomed his third child with Shivon Zilis, who is the director of special projects at the same company.
When asked about the birth of his third child with Zilis, Musk confirmed the news in an interview with the New York Post. However, the name and sex of the child were not disclosed by the entrepreneur. Despite a request for comment, there has been no immediate response from Neuralink.
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In response to claims that he kept the birth of his latest child a secret, Musk clarified in an interview with the Post that this was not the case. According to Musk, “secretly fathered” is a false statement and all of their friends and family were aware of the birth. He also added that not issuing a press release did not equate to keeping the news a secret, as it would be unusual to do so.
In 2021, Musk and Zilis welcomed twins to their family, just before Musk’s second child with musician Grimes was born. Their baby girl, named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, arrived shortly after. With a fortune valued at $207 billion, Musk is the second richest person in the world and advocates for increasing the global birth rate. In a 2022 tweet, he expressed concern over the decline in births, stating that it is “the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” and shared that he is “doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.”
According to Musk, the trend of countries falling below the replacement rate is a fact and not a theory that has been debunked. As he told the Post, almost all countries are following this trend.
The global population has experienced significant growth over the years, from approximately 1 billion in 1900 to about 8 billion people today. Experts estimate that by 2045, the world population will reach 9 billion. Despite this growth, birth rates in certain developed nations, including the United States and South Korea, have decreased in recent decades. In fact, these rates have fallen below the replacement level, which is typically defined as 2.1 children per woman and indicates the level at which a population replaces itself from one generation to the next.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has highlighted the issue of declining birth rates in developed countries, which could lead to significant economic and social problems. This includes putting additional financial pressure on government services and pension schemes such as Social Security as fewer adults are having children. The reasons for this trend are multifaceted, with factors such as unaffordable housing for families and the challenges of balancing a career and family life being among the key contributors, according to the OECD.
How many kids does Elon Musk have now?
Three women have given birth to 12 children fathered by Musk.
According to a Marie Claire article, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson, have six children together. Unfortunately, their first child passed away due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at just 10 weeks old, as reported by Wilson.
In 2004, the couple welcomed twins, Griffin and Vivian, and two years later, in 2006, they were blessed with triplets named Kai, Saxon, and Damian.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is a father of three children with singer Grimes. Their first child, named X Æ A-12, was born in March 2020, followed by their second child, named Exa Dark Sideræl, in 2021. Their third child, named Techno Mechanicus, was born in 2023.
Zilis is the mother of three of Musk’s children, including twins Strider and Azure. Recently, the couple welcomed their third child, whose name is yet to be publicly announced.
Who is Shivon Zilis?
According to her LinkedIn profile, Zilis, a Yale graduate, became a part of Neuralink in 2017. In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, she is referred to as Musk’s “intellectual companion on artificial intelligence since the founding of OpenAI.”
According to her LinkedIn profile, Zilis was an adviser at OpenAI from 2016 to 2019 and held a position on the company’s board from 2020 to 2023. Additionally, she is a fellow at the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab, which she describes as a machine-learning incubator in her biography.
