Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence business, xAI, is expected to close a huge$ 6 billion funding round that will put the 10-month-old company’s valuation at a astounding$ 18 billion. It aims to compete with ChatGPT designer OpenAI.
According to a reliable source close to the deal, xAI’s funding round is scheduled to close in the coming weeks, giving investors a 25 % stake in the business. Due to strong trader demand, the purchase terms have recently been revised to reflect the initial$ 3 billion raise and$ 15 billion pre-money assessment.
Elon Musk’s Halloween costume ( Taylor Hill /Getty )
Notable participants in the round include Sequoia Capital, Future Ventures ( co- founded by Musk’s longtime friend Steve Jurvetson ), and likely Valor Equity Partners and Gigafund, whose founders are part of Musk’s inner circle. Interestingly, Musk’s social media platform X ( formerly Twitter ) already owns a stake in xAI and is set to benefit from the AI company’s future success.
xAI’s reported goal is to connect the digital and physical kingdoms by leveraging education data from Musk’s numerous companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, and Neuralink. Grok, the AI startup’s chatbot, is now a paid add-on that is integrated into X/Twitter, giving Grok, the social network, large distribution and xAI as a client.
In his pitch to investors, Musk envisions a towering online cycle where Grok is being fed information from his other businesses to create really self-driving cars and expand Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus.
The xAI leader has been explicitly essential of OpenAI, the firm he so- founded in 2015 but left in 2018 due to disagreements over its course. Musky has officially criticized OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman and just open-sourced the structures of xAI’s earliest bot,” Grok- 1,” in a bid to distinguish his venture from OpenAI’s shut approach.
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