Elon Musk is back at it again. This time, not with Teslas or rockets, but with AI. According to The Wall Street Journal via Reuters, SpaceX has invested a whopping $2 billion into xAI, the generative AI startup Musk founded last year. This funding is part of a larger $5 billion equity round and follows xAI’s merger with Musk’s other brainchild, X (formerly Twitter). The newly merged company is now valued at around $113billion.
If you are wondering what xAI is, think of it as Musk’s version of ChatGPT, but with more sass. Its main product, Grok, is an AI chatbot that is already helping out with Starlink customer support (SpaceX’s satellite internet service). There are also plans to use Grok in Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots, according to the Reuters report. Yep, robot brains incoming.
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Musk also hinted that Tesla might invest in xAI, but says that it will need shareholder and board approval first. There is no official word yet from SpaceX, xAI, or Tesla. Just Musk doing Musk things, and making sure all his companies talk to each other. So, yes, when your chatbot runs on a satellite and might live inside a robot? That is not just talk. That is Elon.
