Elon Musk just spent seventeen billion dollars to make every cell tower on Earth a relic.
Musk: “It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones.”
Not through towers. Not through cables. Not through any infrastructure on the ground.
Directly from orbit to the phone in your pocket.
For over a century, connectivity followed the same blueprint. Build a tower. Run a cable. Expand the network one piece of ground at a time.
Coverage went where the money was. Where the population density justified the investment.
Everywhere else got silence.
Four billion people still don’t have reliable internet.
Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because no one could justify building a tower where they live.
Connectivity was never a technology problem. It was a geography problem disguised as one.
Musk: “The phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.”
Two years. Then the phone in your hand connects straight to space.
No tower required. No carrier infrastructure between you and the signal.
The entire telecom industry was built on one assumption. That connectivity requires ground infrastructure.
Every carrier. Every contract. Every coverage map. All products of that assumption.
Starlink just bypassed it from orbit.
From orbit, every point on Earth is equidistant.
The word “remote” only exists because connectivity was built from the ground up.
From space, there is no remote. There is no coverage gap. There is no place on Earth harder to reach than any other.
The ground decides who gets connected based on where they are.
The sky doesn’t know the difference.
Human potential was always distributed evenly across the planet. Access to information never was.
The gap between those two facts is the greatest waste in human history.
We spent a century deciding who deserved access to information based on where they happened to be born.
Musk just made that question obsolete from 550 kilometers above the answer.
Today we're announcing the completion of one of the largest engineering projects in the company's history:
We rebuilt the X Android app from scratch
It's faster, smoother and more reliable. But most of all: it will enable us to build new features at lightning speed.
One very useful tool in Agent mode is image cropping of Grok Imagine .
I don't know why no one talks about it, as it is a crucial element for creating smooth transitions.
During a conversation, you need to frame each person and switch camera angles to add energy to your video.
Being able to pick the frame you want and crop it saves a huge amount of time.
A Cybercab with no steering wheel, a massive display, and high speed Starlink is going to be the best place to work or watch a movie as you take a ride across town
SpaceX’s massive corpus of world-class engineering data (excluding material blocked by ITAR) will be added during supplemental training of the 2T run.
This will dramatically improve Grok’s engineering capabilities.
I’m currently using Grok 4.5 99% of the time now for both planning and tasks.
The fact that I don’t have to switch out to a cheaper model to do tasks means there is less context window model switching and faster speed.
Feels incredible.