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Meet Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk’s baby mama who just had her 3rd baby, his 12th overall: the AI queen met the world’s richest man and Tesla CEO through work – and defends him on Twitter

STORYLynn Farah
Who is Shivon Zilis, Neuralink exec and Elon Musk’s baby mama? Photo: @shivon/Instagram
Who is Shivon Zilis, Neuralink exec and Elon Musk’s baby mama? Photo: @shivon/Instagram
Millionaires and billionaires

  • Musk has fathered 12 children: his eldest with Justine Musk, Nevada Alexander Musk, died as an infant in 2002, and he’s also had kids with ex-partner Grimes, who’s suing him over parental rights
  • Zilis and Musk met over her AI work – she was once on the board of OpenAI – and Musk has been outspoken about wanting smart people to have kids, as detailed in his biography by Walter Isaacson

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has always been outspoken about his concern for the population decline, has fathered his 12th known child.

Earlier this year, Musk quietly welcomed his third baby with Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain implant company Neuralink Corp, as reported by Bloomberg.

Elon Musk just fathered another child with Neuralink exec Shivon Zilis. Photo: DPA
Elon Musk just fathered another child with Neuralink exec Shivon Zilis. Photo: DPA
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Zilis works in the field of AI and rocketed to global notoriety after it was revealed that she had welcomed fraternal twins Strider and Azure, two, through IVF with Musk in November 2021. The name and sex of Musk and Zilis’ new baby is yet to be revealed.

Shivon Zilis (left), who now has three children with Elon Musk. Photo: @shivon/X
Shivon Zilis (left), who now has three children with Elon Musk. Photo: @shivon/X
Musk, 52, also shares five children with his first wife Justine Wilson, and three with ex-girlfriend Grimes – who sued Musk over parental rights in 2023.

But just who is Zilis, 38, the latest woman to have a baby with one of the world’s most controversial thinkers? Meet Zilis, the Canadian techie who plays ice hockey – and once met Prince Harry.

Shivon Zilis is an AI queen

Shivon Zilis, the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children, is respected in the field of AI. Photo: @AlphaMaleTips44/X
Shivon Zilis, the mother of three of Elon Musk’s children, is respected in the field of AI. Photo: @AlphaMaleTips44/X
Zilis’ bio on X (formerly Twitter) reveals that she is interested in artificial intelligence, biological intelligence and “whatever exists in between and beyond”. In 2011, she joined then emerging venture project Bloomberg Beta as a founding member. According to The Washington Post, Zilis was on the board of OpenAI, the well-known AI research organisation that Musk co-founded. She reportedly left the board in 2023, per New York Post.

She works at Neuralink

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