After graduating from Yale, Zilis started her career at IBM in New York, working in financial technologies in developing countries, especially Peru and Indonesia.[5] From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the founding investors and partner of Bloomberg Beta, funded by Bloomberg L.P., utilizing what she calls "machine intelligence".[7]
Zilis served as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink. Zilis met Elon Musk through her non-profit work at OpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023.[11][12]
Personal life
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In July 2022, court documents in Travis County, Texas, revealed that Zilis and Elon Musk had twin children in November 2021. The twins were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF).[13][14][15] According to court documents to register the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address in Austin.[16] In June 2024, it was reported that she had a third child with Musk.[17][18][19]
^Grind, Kirsten; Ewing, Jack (13 September 2024). "Inside Elon Musk's Mushrooming Security Apparatus". The New York Times. Section B, page 1. ISSN0362-4331. Archived from the original on 9 January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025. A grand jury has indicted Mr. Overeem on a felony charge of making a terroristic threat. He is out on $200,000 bail, with his bail conditions requiring him to stay 200 yards away from Mr. Musk and Shivon Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, one of Mr. Musk's companies. Ms. Zilis is also the mother of some of Mr. Musk's children.