Elon Musk launched his and Grimes‘ child boy X Æ A-12 to the world on Twitter in Could 2020. They later modified the spelling of his title with a view to meet California’s authorized pointers, which solely allow letters from the English alphabet. Switching over to roman numerals, the mother and father agreed to spell his title, X Æ A-Xii.
“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes defined on Twitter. “Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Synthetic intelligence) A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favourite plane). No weapons, no defenses, simply velocity. Nice in battle, however non-violent.”
Grimes continued, “A=Archangel, my favourite music” with an accompanying a rat and sword emoji. “Metallic rat.”
In March 2022, she introduced they’d welcomed daughter Exa Darkish Sideræl Musk by way of surrograte.
“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing time period exaFLOPS (the power to carry out 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she mentioned. “Darkish, in the meantime, is ‘the unknown. Folks worry it however really it is the absence of photons. Darkish matter is the attractive thriller of our universe.'”
Sideræl—pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”—is “the true time of the universe, star time, deep area time, not our relative earth time,” she mentioned, and a nod to her favourite Lord of the Rings character, Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”
