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. “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.
Read Shivon Zilis’ full post
“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’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! 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.”
Who is Shivon Zilis?
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.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. This put her in Musk’s professional orbit on a much closer basis. In November 2021, Musk and Zilis welcomed twins, Strider and Azure, in Austin, Texas. They were conceived through IVF. Their births were initially kept private. Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson described Zilis as an “intellectual companion” and wrote extensively about their close relationship.Musk and Zilis petitioned a Texas court to change the twins’ names so they would include Musk’s surname. The court documents made their parentage public in July 2022.Musk and Zilis had a third child, a daughter named Arcadia. Musk confirmed the birth in June 2024, saying the birth had not been deliberately kept secret.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.
Two marriages, several high-profile relationships
Musk met Canadian author Justine Wilson while both were students at Queen’s University in Ontario. They married in 2000. The couple had six children, although their first son, Nevada Alexander, died of sudden infant death syndrome at 10 weeks old in 2002. They had twins Griffin and Vivian in 2004 and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian in 2006.The marriage ended in 2008. Wilson later wrote about the relationship in a 2010 Marie Claire essay, describing feelings of being diminished within the marriage.Soon after their divorce, Musk began dating British actress Talulah Riley. They married in 2010 in Scotland. The relationship ended in divorce in 2012, but the two reconciled and remarried in 2013. Musk filed for divorce again in December 2014 but withdrew the filing. Riley subsequently filed for divorce in 2016, and the divorce was finalized that year.Musk and actor Amber Heard became romantically involved after Heard’s marriage to Johnny Depp ended. Their relationship was on-and-off between 2016 and 2018.Musk and Canadian musician Grimes publicly revealed their relationship in 2018. They had three children together.Their first child, X Æ A-Xii, was born in May 2020. Their second child, Exa Dark Sideræl, was born via surrogate in December 2021. A third child, Techno Mechanicus, was later reported to have been born in 2022.The relationship became increasingly complicated. Musk said in 2021 that they were “semi-separated,” while Grimes later described their relationship as fluid. They subsequently separated, but continued to have an ongoing relationship as co-parents.In February 2025, conservative writer Ashley St Clair publicly said that she and Musk had a child together, born in 2024. Musk did not initially publicly acknowledge the child.
