Elon Musk’s xAI raises six billion dollars to develop artificial intelligence

27 May 2024, 16:34

Elon Musk in 2024
Elon Musk in 2024. Picture: PA

XAI said it has made ‘significant strides’ during the past year in developing the technology, which will continue in the coming months.

A group of investors will put up six billion dollars (£4.7 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 the past year in developing the technology, which will continue in the coming months.

Investors in the latest round include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding.

Mr Musk wrote on the social media site X that before the investment, xAI had a valuation of 18 billion dollars.

The funding should help Mr Musk’s company compete in a race to develop artificial intelligence against Microsoft and Open AI, which created Chat GPT.

Mr Musk announced the formation of the company in July of last year and released its artificial intelligence chatbot called Grok in November.

By Press Association

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