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 identify with a purpose to meet California’s authorized tips, which solely allow letters from the English alphabet. Switching over to roman numerals, the mother and father agreed to spell his identify, X Æ A-Xii.
“X, the unknown variable,” Grimes explained 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 pace. Nice in battle, however non-violent.”
Grimes continued, “A=Archangel, my favourite tune” with an accompanying a rat and sword emoji. “Steel rat.”
In March 2022, she introduced that they had welcomed daughter Exa Darkish Sideræl Musk by way of surrograte.
“Exa is a reference to the supercomputing time period exaFLOPS (the flexibility to carry out 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she mentioned. “Darkish, in the meantime, is ‘the unknown. Folks worry it however actually 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.”
