Elon Musk and Larry Page’s companies have grown closer over time

Elon Musk and Google cofounder Larry Page drifted apart years ago, but the companies tied to them have become more interconnected. SpaceX, which recently completed a large IPO, now has major business links with Google through an investment stake and a large AI infrastructure leasing deal. The article looks back at how the relationship between Musk and Page changed after a fallingout in 2015 over artificial intelligence and the role of digital life. Since then, their companies have intersected in AI, cloud computing, and autonomous vehicles, even as the personal rift appears to have remained. The story also notes that Google invested in SpaceX in 2015, and that SpaceX later became a customer of Google Cloud. More recently, SpaceX agreed to lease AI compute capacity to Google, underscoring how the two firms now depend on each other in parts of the technology stack.