Shivon Zilis, the thirty-year-old AI genius who shares the life of the indomitable Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a UFO even in his family life, and let’s face it, we’re getting lost in his family tree, or at least his descendants. For the richest man in the world, births are increasing, and sometimes even just a few weeks apart. On July 7, 2022, the head of Tesla confirmed the news and said: Page six being the father of ten children in all. A few months ago, in November 2021 to be exact, she actually had twins in Austin. And this in the greatest secrecy. While he was apparently in a relationship with the young Australian actress Natasha Bassett, the mother of those children happened to be Shivonne Zillis. Her name means nothing to the general public, and yet she is an influential figure in Silicon Valley is Neuralink, Elon Musk’s latest company that develops computer chips designed to be implanted in the brain.

In addition to ending Elon Musk’s romance with Natasha Bassett, the sudden announcement raises questions. Basically, it is the time that raises the question. Because in December 2021, a month after the birth of his twins, Elon Musk welcomed his second child with goth pop singer Grimes, from whom he was officially separated, a surrogate daughter named “Y” (together, they already have one named “X”). boy and will soon have a third child, Techno Mechanicus, whose diminutive will be Tau.) But the arrival of this eleventh child, however oddly enough, won’t affect his relationship with his new partner Shivonne Zillis, who has become his staunchest supporter.

AI rising star

Born in 1986 in Markham, Ontario, Shivon Zillis grew up playing hockey, as he says. USA Today In 2015, her passion for the sport would follow her to Yale University, where she became the goalkeeper for the women’s team, which is known as one of the best in the United States , he quickly caught the attention of Silicon Valley. And it was at IBM that the Canadian woman started her career. She stayed there for three years.

Later, Shivon Zilis participated in the launch of the Bloomberg Beta investment fund. There, he played a key role in funding innovative start-ups and deepened his knowledge of artificial intelligence, a field that had fascinated him since he was a teenager, when he discovered: Spiritual machines From Our Lady Peace (a futurist-influenced album), her experience earned her a spot on the “30 Under 30” list Forbes: in the venture capital category in 2015. But above all, it allowed him to join OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which was co-founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman. What he will remain until his resignation in March 2023, we read in the specialized media The information .

Then Elon Musk hired him for two of his powerful companies. At Tesla, from 2017 to 2019, where he brought his AI expertise to the Autopilot and chip design teams, and at Neuralinks, which he joined in 2017, along with Tesla, and became a director of.

3 kids and a house in Austin

Even today, it is unknown when the relationship between Musk and Zilis, from the beginning, took a romantic turn. Elon Musk usually refuses to comment on his personal life. As for Shivon Zilis, he remains reticent. Even if he does not hide his support for the entrepreneur, who has just been appointed by Donald Trump as the head of the Ministry of “Government Efficiency”.

There is no one I respect and admire more

Shivon Zillis on Elon Musk

Proof: In May 2020, Elon Musk publicly spoke out against the state of California’s Covid-19 containment restrictions, calling them “fascist.” However, he’s vowing to move Tesla’s headquarters to Texas as a result, angering Democratic Rep. Lorena Gonzalez. “F*ck Elon Musk,” the elected official rages on Twitter. the network does not belong to the billionaire yet, Shivon Zilis decides to respond and goes to save his boss (and maybe already his companion). “Nobody’s perfect, but I’ve never met anyone who has endured so much personal suffering to fight for an inspiring future for humanity, and has done so tirelessly for decades,” the Neuralinks director then asserted. “Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but mine is that there is no one I respect and admire.”

Since then, Shivonne Zillis has given birth to a third child, the billionaire’s twelfth. Always, among the greatest secrets, neither the name nor the gender of the child who would be born this year is announced. The couple and their three children today live in Austin on a very private property inside a “gated community” (gated community) not far from the Tesla Gigafactory, according to court documents obtained only Business Insider: Musk still considers his primary residence a small $50,000 home in Boca Chica, not far from the SpaceX launch site in south Texas.

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