What if Elon Musk launched a Gmail competitor? The idea was recently mentioned by the boss of Tesla and owner of the social network X, in a recent publication. Musk was reacting to a post from a 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 generally works, including email.” This is not a confirmation at this time. But in any case, it would be logical for the old Twitter to offer an e-mail 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 the leadership of Elon Musk, X has already greatly improved its messaging, for example by integrating a calling functionality. And it also continues to work on an integrated payment functionality.
Gmail: one of the most important Google services
In any case, by launching an e-mail service, X would be competing with one of Google’s most used 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 in competition 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 among users of the free version of the network social, while this access was formerly reserved for premium users.
- Elon Musk does not rule out the idea of launching a Gmail competitor on the social network
- This indicates that we should rethink the way messaging services and emails work
- In any case, this would be logical, since Elon Musk’s objective 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)
