Elon Musk and Shivon Zillis have parted ways.
“I’ve loved him more than life itself and he’s taught me 100 lifetimes of knowledge and made my cup overflow with life meaning, so there is a lot of loss, but luckily we created four beautiful little loves of my life ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I am so beyond grateful for our children and they make every single day the best day of my life! In January 2025, Zilis accompanied Musk at events around Donald Trump’s inauguration, including social gatherings involving other prominent technology figures. In February, Zilis announced that she and Musk had welcomed their fourth child, Seldon Lycurgus.
“It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes,” Zilis wrote. Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis made a long social media post hinting that Elon Musk has broken up with him all of a sudden. Zilis made the statement reacting to a post that noticed that Elon Musk was not following Zilis on X anymore. “I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness. Given the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide. My heart is full knowing I got to do that, and I hope it leaves a lasting good effect. “We were always his safe space. A place where all of us were overjoyed to see him and one that was always full of happiness and love, not war, in contrast to his otherwise militant existence (a needed break from the battlefield where he could recharge his heart and soul before heading back out) “I loved being that counterbalancing place of safety, sense of calm, and love — and delighted in bringing a smile back to his face when he was down. I will miss him dearly. I do hope and pray he and I can be great friends and coparents. I’m hurting, but care deeply about E and will always be cheering for his happiness. God speed, Elon, the world is lucky to have you. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis met through OpenAI in 2016 where Zilis was an adviser. Zilis joined Neuralink in 2017 and eventually became its director of operations and special projects. In November 2021, Musk and Zilis welcomed twins, Strider and Azure, in Austin, Texas. The court documents made their parentage public in July 2022. Musk confirmed the birth in June 2024, saying the birth had not been deliberately kept secret.
Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson described Zilis as an “intellectual companion” and wrote extensively about their close relationship. Zilis is a Canadian AI executive, venture capitalist and a former board member of OpenAI. She graduated from Yale with degrees in economics and philosophy. She began her career with IBM in Peru and Indonesia. She later became a founding partner at Bloomberg Beta focusing on machine intelligence investments. She also worked on project direction for Tesla Autopilot and chip design. This put her in Musk’s professional orbit on a much closer basis. They were conceived through IVF. Their births were initially kept private. Musk and Zilis petitioned a Texas court to change the twins’ names so they would include Musk’s surname. Musk and Zilis had a third child, a daughter named Arcadia.