X Development

X Development LLC (formerly Google X) is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010, Work at X is overseen by entrepreneur scientist Astro Teller, as CEO and "Captain of Moonshots". The lab started with the development of Google's self-driving car. On October 2, 2015, after the complete restructuring of Google into Alphabet, Google X became an independent Alphabet company and was renamed to X.