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Elon Musk is one of the world ’ s wealthiest people , with an estimated net worth of US $ 210bn . In recent years , he has courted controversy over his buy-out of Twitter ( now X ). But he remains an electric vehicle production pioneer , having invested in Tesla Motors in 2004 . He became its CEO in 2008 and also helped create solar energy company SolarCity – later Tesla Energy . In 2015 , he co-founded OpenAI , a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company .

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