Elon Musk welcomes third child with Neuralink executive. Here’s how many kids he now has.

Elon Musk had a 3rd little one with an government at Neuralink, his mind implant firm. Musk and Neuralink Corp. director of particular initiatives, Shivon Zilis, welcomed the child earlier this 12 months, Bloomberg Information reported.

Neuralink did not instantly reply to a request for remark. In an interview with the New York Put up, Musk confirmed the start of his third little one with Zilis, however didn’t disclose the kid’s identify or intercourse. 

Musk instructed the Put up that the start of his newest little one was not saved secret. “As for ‘secretly fathered,’ that can be false,” he instructed the publication. “All our family and friends know. Failure to situation a press launch, which might be weird, doesn’t imply ‘secret.'”

Musk and Zilis are already mother and father to twins born in 2021, shortly earlier than the start of Musk’s second little one with musician Grimes, a child lady named Exa Darkish Sideræl Musk. Musk, the world’s second richest particular person, with a fortune valued at $207 billion, is a proponent of boosting the worldwide start fee, claiming in a 2022 tweet {that a} falloff in births is “the largest hazard civilization faces by far” — and including that he’s “doing my finest to assist the underpopulation disaster.”

“Many international locations are already nicely under alternative fee, and the development is that the majority will likely be,” Musk instructed the Put up. “That is merely a reality, not a ‘debunked principle.'”

The world inhabitants has grown to about 8 billion at the moment from 1 billion in about 1900, and is projected to hit 9 billion individuals by 2045. Nevertheless, start charges in some developed international locations, starting from South Korea to the U.S., have declined in current many years — dipping under the alternative fee, or stage at which a inhabitants replaces itself from one technology to the subsequent, which is usually outlined as 2.1 kids per girl. 

Declining start charges in developed international locations was not too long ago flagged by the OECD as posing critical financial and social challenges, reminiscent of putting extra monetary pressure on authorities providers and pensions reminiscent of Social Safety. Adults are having fewer kids for quite a lot of causes, together with an absence of inexpensive housing for households and the difficulties in managing each a profession and household, the OECD mentioned. 

What number of children does Elon Musk have now?

Musk has fathered 12 children with three girls. 

The Tesla CEO has had six kids with Canadian creator Justine Wilson, who was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008. Their first little one died of Sudden Toddler Demise Syndrome, or SIDS, when he was 10 weeks previous, Wilson wrote in a Marie Claire article. 

The couple later had twins, Griffin and Vivian, in 2004, adopted by triplet in 2006, Kai, Saxon and Damian. 

Musk additionally has three kids with singer Grimes. Their first, named X Æ A-12, was born in March 2020; their second little one, named Exa Darkish Sideræl, was born in 2021. Their third little one, named Techno Mechanicus, was born in 2023.

Musk has had three kids with Zilis, together with twins Strider and Azure. Earlier this 12 months, he and Zilis welcomed their third little one, whose identify hasn’t been launched to the general public.

Who’s Shivon Zilis?

Zilis, a Yale graduate, joined Neuralink in 2017, in accordance to her LinkedIn web page. In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, she is described as Musk’s “mental companion on synthetic intelligence for the reason that founding of OpenAI.”

Zilis labored as an adviser to OpenAI from 2016 to 2019, based on LinkedIn, and served on the corporate’s board from 2020 to 2023. She’s additionally a fellow on the Artistic Destruction Lab, which she describes in her bio as a machine-learning incubator on the College of Toronto.