Musk has toyed with the idea of Macrohard for a long time now, even making public comments about it. In 2021, he had posted on X: "Macrohard >> Microsoft." Last year, he reshared that post after a major Microsoft outage disrupted services for millions of users around the world.

What Happened: Musk’s AI firm, xAI, is said to be creating an AI-only software company named “Macrohard.” Musk characterized the project as “very real”, implying that software companies like Microsoft, which do not produce physical hardware, could theoretically be entirely simulated using AI.