SpaceX went public on Friday in a major initial public offering that combined the rocket company with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence and social media operations into a single publicly traded entity, according to The Verge. The offering is raising substantial capital and is expected to make Musk the world's first trillionaire—a personal net worth exceeding the annual GDP of countries including Ireland and Sweden.

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