For the first time, Elon Musk was seen with his twins and their mother, Shivon Zilis. Ms. Zilis works for Musk at his brain chip business, Neuralink. Walter Isaacson, author of Mr Musk’s biography, shared the image on his X, formerly Twitter account.
According to Insider, the photo depicts the billionaire sitting cross-legged on a couch with one of the twins, who was 16 months old at the time, on his lap. Ms Zilis is holding the other infant. The photograph was taken at Zilis’ house in Austin, Texas. On Wednesday, Mr Isaacson posted the image. In another image, one of the twins reaches out to touch a life-size robot while Mr Musk bends over him.
Their identities have never been revealed. According to court records, Zilis, a Canadian-born venture entrepreneur, gave birth to Musk’s eighth and ninth children in November 2021. The twins were born through IVF just a few days before Mr Musk’s second child with Canadian artist Grimes.
Musk wanted to meet Isaacson at Zili’s house last March
Mr. Musk, according to Isaacson, wanted to meet him at Zili’s house last March for a chat. “He said we should leave our phones in the house while we sat outside, because, he said, someone could use them to monitor our conversation. But he later agreed that I could use what he said about AI in my book,” Mr. Isaacson wrote in an excerpt from his biography posted in Time magazine.
“For a moment I was struck by the oddness of the scene,” Isaacson wrote. “We were sitting on a suburban patio by a tranquil backyard swimming pool on a sunny spring day, with two bright-eyed twins learning to toddle, as Musk somberly speculated about the window of opportunity for building a sustainable human colony on Mars before an AI apocalypse destroyed earthly civilization.”
According to Reuters, Ms Zilis assured his colleagues and Mr Musk that she had never been in a sexual or romantic relationship.