Elon Musk has revealed how he recently had a third baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, 38, who is part of his brain implant company.
Musk, 52, was accused of keeping the birth of the child, his 12th in total, secret after news of the birth became public through media reports.
The billionaire businessman says there was never any intention to keep it a secret, but issuing a press release would also have been “strange”, although the baby’s name and sex have not been revealed.
‘As for “secret father”, that is also false. All our friends and family know it. Not issuing a press release, which would be strange, does not mean “secret,” Musk told Page Six, about the birth.
The baby, believed to have been born earlier this year, was first mentioned in a report by Bloomberg titled ‘Elon Wants You to Have More Babies’.
Musk and Zilis quietly welcomed third baby in early 2024
The baby is believed to have been born earlier this year.
Musk said there was never any intention to keep the birth of his 12th child a secret, but sending a press release would have also been “strange.” In the photo, Musk welcoming his X’s son in 2020
The article discusses the X and Tesla owner’s previously shared concerns about declining population rates.
“The collapse of the birth rate is by far the greatest danger facing civilization,” he tweeted in the past.
Musk is a bigot when it comes to a possible “demographic collapse” which he believes poses a greater risk to the world than global warming.
This was evident in a recent exchange on shared by other EU populists. .
“Okay,” Musk responded. “But if the birth rate remains so low (1.6), your Dutch nation will become extinct on its own.”
‘Many countries are already well below the replacement rate and the trend indicates that almost all will be. This is simply a fact, not a “debunked theory,” Musk previously said.
Musk is also the father of twins Strider and Azure that he shares with Zilis.
Musk has said he wants to be present for his children and sometimes takes them to work.
“2.1 children is the replacement rate, and it’s clear that globally we will soon fall below that point,” Musk said.
In a 2023 interview with Tucker Carlson, Musk shared similar views.
‘Once you have contraceptives and abortions and all that, now you can still satisfy the limbic instinct but not procreate. Will civilization end with a bang or a whimper? Well, he’s currently trying to finish with a moan in adult diapers, which is very depressing,” she said.
The US Census Bureau disagrees with such views and notes that the The world population is not decreasing.
100 years ago there were 2 billion people alive and last year the number exceeded 8 billion.
United Nations data projects that number will continue to rise to 10 billion by 2100, and even a collapse is unlikely.
X, four years old, usually accompanies his father at public events
Zilis works as director of special projects for Neuralink Corp. Neuralink is Musk’s brain implant company
Aside from his three children with Zilis, he also shares three with Claire Boucher, known by her stage name Grimes. The couple appears in the photo in 2018.
Musk and Zilis, who works as director of special projects for Neuralink Corp., already share 2½-year-old twins Strider and Azure, who were born in November 2021. The couple has appeared in several of Zilis’ films. social media posts.
Musk’s complicated personal life has involved three marriages and three divorces, including two each to the same woman, as well as eight children from two long-term romances plus the twins with Zilis they conceived through in vitro fertilization.
Aside from her three children with Zilis, she also shares three with musician Grimes.
Grimes is currently in a legal battle with Musk and is suing him for parental rights to her three children.
Elon began dating Grimes in April 2018. The eccentric couple made headlines when they made their Met Gala red carpet debut the following month.
However, Musk has been seen with his four-year-old son, X (born X Æ A-12 in May 2020), at various events, including the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
Musk and X, after whom the platform once known as Twitter is named, looking at the robot Optimus
SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Canadian musician Grimes in 2018 at a SpaceX competition
Their second child, Exa Dark Sideræl, named Y, was born via surrogate in December 2021.
Musk’s other children are the result of his union with his first ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson.
The couple shares with his ex-wife twins Griffin and Xavier, born in 2004, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
Xavier, now 20 years old, has since gender transitioned to become a woman. Her name is Vivian and she abandoned her father’s famous surname, having declared in court that she “no longer wishes to be related” to him “in any way.”
Nevada, Musk and Wilson’s eldest daughter, tragically died at just 10 weeks old due to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in 2002.
Zilis, who was born in Ontario, Canada, met Musk through OpenAI, the nonprofit artificial intelligence research and implementation organization that Musk co-founded in 2015, Insider reported.
Zilis has been Musk’s “intellectual partner in artificial intelligence since the founding of OpenAI.”
In 2015, Zilis was on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the venture capital category and in 2017 she joined Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink as director of operations and special projects, according to her LinkedIn profile. .
She studied economics and philosophy at Yale, where she also played goalie on the women’s ice hockey team.
Musk and Zilis filed a petition in April 2022 to change the twins’ names to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name,” according to court documents.
The photograph of Musk, Zilis and the twins, posted by Musk biographer Walter Isaacson, was taken at Zilis’ home in Austin, Texas, according to an excerpt from the biography published in Time.