Tag: Musks

Elon Musk’s X plans livestream event with Donald Trump

Tech billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Friday that his X app is planning to host a livestreamed town hall-style event with former President Donald Trump. “This will be interesting,” Musk, the owner of X, posted on the app while sharing a report about the plan from the New York Post. Plans for the event were reported […]

Musk’s $56 billion pay package opposed by CalPERS CEO, CNBC reports

(Reuters) -The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) CEO Marcie Frost is planning to oppose Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, CNBC reported on Wednesday. “We do not believe that the compensation is commensurate with the performance of the company,” Frost said in an interview to CNBC. Asked if the pension fund was […]

Cathie Wood’s Ark buys stake in Musk’s xAI, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) – Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management had purchased a stake in xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup with a post-money valuation of $24 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The stake represents about 2% of the fund’s holdings, according to Ark Chief Futurist Brett Winton in an interview to Bloomberg, which added that Ark […]

Cathie Wood’s Ark buys stake in Musk’s xAI, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) – Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management had purchased a stake in xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup with a post-money valuation of $24 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The stake represents about 2% of the fund’s holdings, according to Ark Chief Futurist Brett Winton in an interview to Bloomberg, which added that Ark […]

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6bn to develop artificial intelligence

A group of investors will put up $6 billion (€5.5 billion) to fund development of artificial intelligence by Elon Musk’s xAI. The company said on its website that the Series B funding round will be used to take xAI’s first products to market and speed up research. XAI said it has made “significant strides” during […]

Elon Musk’s xAI gets $6B in new funding and announces valuation

Billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI announced Sunday that the company raised $6 billion in Series B funding that lifts the company’s valuation to $24 billion after the investment. Among the investors in xAI’s $6 billion Series B round were Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research […]

Elon Musk’s xAI plans to build ‘Gigafactory of Compute’ by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia’s H100 GPUs

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, plans to build a massive supercomputer to enhance its AI chatbot, Grok, reports Reuters citing The Information. The supercomputer, which Elon Musk refers to as the Gigafactory of Compute, is projected to be ready by fall 2025 and might involve a collaboration with Oracle. With this development, Musk aims to significantly surpass rival […]

Elon Musk’s xAI valued at $24 billion after fresh funding

(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion as investors bet big on challengers to companies like OpenAI in the intensifying AI race. The funding round was backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, the company said in a blog post […]