What if Elon Musk became Gmail's new nightmare ?

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What if Elon Musk launched a competitor to Gmail ? The idea was recently raised by the CEO of Tesla and owner of the social network X, in a recent publication. Musk was reacting to the publication of an Internet user who wrote: “Having an @x.com email address is the only thing that can stop me from using Gmail!”

Elon Musk's response: “Interesting. We need to rethink how messaging works in general, including email.” This is not a confirmation at this point. But it would make sense for the old Twitter to offer an email service, sooner or later.

Indeed, it is important to remember that Elon Musk's project for this social network is to make it a super-application, comparable to WeChat in China. The idea is to integrate as many useful tools in everyday life as possible into this platform. Under Elon Musk's leadership, X has already greatly improved its messaging, for example by integrating a call feature. And it also continues to work on an integrated payment feature.

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Gmail: one of the most important Google services

In any case, by launching an e-mail service, X would be competing with one of the most used Google products. Furthermore, it should also be remembered that Gmail plays a central role in the Google ecosystem, since the Gmail account allows access to all its other products, such as YouTube or Gemini.

Moreover, it should be remembered that Elon Musk is already competing with Google and OpenAI in the race for artificial intelligence. Indeed, he created an AI laboratory called xAI, whose Grok models are already accessible on the social network X. Recently, X deployed access to this artificial intelligence to users of the free version of the social network, whereas this access was previously reserved for premium users.

• Elon Musk does not rule out the idea of ​​launching a competitor to Gmail on the social network X
• He indicates that the way messaging services and emails work should be rethought
• In any case, this would be logical, since Elon Musk's goal is to transform X into a super application, which would include all the services useful in daily life
• Otherwise, Musk is already competing with Google in the field of AI, given that he has his own artificial intelligence laboratory (whose Grok technology is offered on X)

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