Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, has bought X, according to a post shared by Musk. Moreover their related names and proprietor, the businesses are already linked by xAI’s chatbot Grok, which is built-in into X.
X was acquired by xAI by an all-stock transaction. “The mix values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B much less $12B debt),” Musk writes. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined.” The businesses plan on combining “knowledge, fashions, compute, distribution and expertise,” utilizing X’s attain as a social platform to unfold “xAI’s superior AI functionality.” The put up affords little element past that, however the motivations might be as monetary as they’re sensible.
@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The mix values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B much less $12B debt).
Since its founding two years in the past, xAI has quickly turn out to be one of many main AI labs on this planet, constructing fashions and knowledge facilities at…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2025
X, then Twitter, was acquired by Musk in 2022 for $43 billion. xAI, like many main AI corporations, has been raising money as typically and as shortly as attainable. Combining the 2 corporations, apart from the fuzzy potential advantages social media posts might have for coaching AI, helps ease among the debt that Musk took on taking Twitter non-public. The billionaire pulled an analogous stunt in 2016 with Tesla, when the automotive maker merged with SolarCity for $2.6 billion.
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