Elon Musk presented his and Grimes' baby X Æ A-12 to the world on Twitter in May 2020. They later changed the spelling of their name to comply with California legal guidelines, which only allow letters of the English alphabet. Turning to Roman numerals, the parents agreed to spell her name, X Æ A-Xii.
“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes explained on Twitter. “Æ, my elvish spelling of Ai (love and/or artificial intelligence) A-12 = precursor to the SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Excellent in battle, but not violent.”
Grimes continued: “A=Archangel, my favorite song” accompanied by a rat and sword emoji. “Metal rat.”
In March 2022, she announced that they had welcomed their daughter. musk exa dark sideræl through a surrogate.
“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 trillion floating point operations per second),” he said. “Darkness, meanwhile, is 'the unknown. People fear it, but it's actually the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.'”
Sideræl, pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el,” is “the true time of the universe, the time of the stars, the time of deep space, not our relative time on Earth,” he said, and a nod to his character Lord of the Rings favorite. , Galadriel, who “decides to abdicate the ring.”