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.

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest gooner, has a new software company. And in typical Musk fashion, he’s given it a name that only a teenager stuck in a 54-year-old’s body would truly appreciate.

Elon Musk said on X that making software companies like Microsoft "entirely with AI" should be possible since they don't make any physical hardware.