{"id":9934,"date":"2026-06-13T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:09","slug":"spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9934","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Eric Berger<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 12, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Space Exploration Technologies, better known simply as SpaceX, became a publicly traded company on Friday nearly a quarter of a century after it was founded.<\/p>\n<p>The company began trading on the Nasdaq exchange in New York City at $135 a share, valuing SpaceX at nearly $1.8 trillion. By the end of the trading day the company&#8217;s shares were selling at $160.95, a respectable increase of more than 19 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On paper, SpaceX founder Elon Musk became the world&#8217;s first trillionaire, with his personal stake in the company valued at more than $700 billion. Because of the company&#8217;s stock options plan, thousands of current and former employees became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/10\/technology\/spacex-ipo-employee-millionaires.html?campaign_id=4&amp;emc=edit_dk_20260612&amp;instance_id=177077&amp;nl=dealbook&amp;regi_id=77722883&amp;segment_id=221404&amp;user_id=d5e9cff6cf0c03ffbb9921bcd45f630c\">overnight millionaires<\/a>. Employees at SpaceX have worked remarkably hard over the last 24 years, and now they will be richly compensated for having done so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/06\/spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/06\/spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/06\/spacex-is-now-a-public-company-valued-for-its-ai-potential-so-what-comes-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Berger &bull; June 12, 2026 Space Exploration Technologies, better known simply as SpaceX, became a publicly traded company on Friday nearly a quarter of a century after it was founded. The company began trading on the Nasdaq exchange in New York City at $135 a share, valuing SpaceX at nearly $1.8 trillion. By the<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9934\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}