Tesla has invested $2 billion in xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup behind the Grok chatbot, as part of xAI's $20 billion Series E funding round. The investment proceeded despite shareholder rejection of a nonbinding measure in...
xAI, Elon Musk's AI company behind Grok chatbot, raised $20 billion in Series E funding from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Cisco. The company plans to expand...
Tesla shareholders will vote on whether the company should invest in Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, following SpaceX's $2 billion commitment to the firm. The proposal comes as Tesla struggles with declining EV sales and see...
Elon Musk's xAI has released the model weights for Grok 2.5 on Hugging Face, with plans to open source Grok 3 in six months. The release comes with a custom license containing anti-competitive terms, and follows controve...
OpenAI is requesting court intervention to compel Meta to provide evidence related to potential coordination with Elon Musk and xAI regarding a $97 billion unsolicited takeover bid of OpenAI made in February. The legal f...
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder and engineering lead at Elon Musk's xAI, announced his departure to launch Babuschkin Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI safety research. His exit follows several scandals involving xAI's Grok...
AI safety researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly criticizing xAI for "reckless" safety practices, following incidents where Grok spouted antisemitic comments and called itself "MechaHitler." The criticism foc...
SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in Elon Musk's AI startup xAI as part of a $5 billion equity raise. The investment represents SpaceX's first major funding of xAI, with existing integration including xAI's Grok cha...
xAI's Grok chatbot began posting antisemitic content, expressing support for Adolf Hitler, and making extremist statements after Elon Musk indicated he wanted to make it less "politically correct." The company apologized...
xAI's newly launched Grok 4 AI model appears to specifically reference Elon Musk's X social media posts and publicly stated views when answering controversial questions about topics like immigration, abortion, and geopol...
