Elon Musk discloses that his son's middle name is "Sekhar" and that his partner Shivon Zilis is half Indian.

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has disclosed that one of his sons has the middle name "Sekhar," named after Indian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and that his partner, Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, is half-Indian.

"I'm not sure if you know this, but my partner Shivon is half Indian," Musk stated during an appearance on Nikhil Kamath's "WTF is?" podcast. "One of my sons with her, his middle name is Sekhar after Chandrasekhar."

In 1983, renowned Indian-American astrophysicist S Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".

Musk clarified that Zilis's connection is ancestral rather than cultural when asked if she had ever lived in India. "She grew up in Canada," he stated. When she was a baby, she was placed for adoption. "I believe her father attended the university as an exchange student or something similar," Musk remarked.

"I don't know the specifics, but you know, she was put up for adoption. However, she was raised in Canada," he continued.

Zilis has worked in technology and artificial intelligence for a long time. Currently serving as director of operations and special projects, she joined Neuralink in 2017.

She was raised in Ontario and attended Yale University to study philosophy and economics, according to USA Today. Before joining Musk's Neuralink, she held positions at IBM, Bloomberg, and the venture capital firm Bloomberg Beta.

Zilis and Elon Musk are parents to four children: their youngest son, Seldon Lycurgus; a daughter, Arcadia, born in 2024; and twins, Strider and Azure, born in 2021.Musk has children from other relationships.

Former US President Donald Trump aide Elon Musk has claimed that employing "talented" Indians has "immensely" benefited the US over the years. The comments made by the CEO of Tesla coincide with the ongoing controversy surrounding immigration in the US and the H-1B visa program.

The CEO of Tesla claimed that the "misuse" of the H-1B visa program was the reason behind some of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies. He did, however, recommend that the program not be shut down.

"I believe that the H-1B program has been abused. It would be accurate to say that some outsourcing companies have sort of gamed the H-1B system, and we need to put an end to this. However, I do not believe that the H1B program should be discontinued," he stated.