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Shotwell: SpaceX and xAI merger owns Earth's largest gigawatt-class compute cluster
“With the merger, the acquisition of XAI, we now, as a group, own the largest coherent gigawatt class compute on the planet, which will help us truth seek and understand the universe.”
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
Hays: SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of planned IPO
“So, they're in discussions ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, and X social media platform, and the Grok AI chatbot under one roof.”
Musk says xAI will exceed all combined AI compute in five years
“Elon Musk says that XAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in less than five years.”
Altman: Musk uses lawsuits and takeover bids to slow OpenAI down
“I think he's probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor. It's, you know, he's working hard, and he's raised a lot of money for XAI, and they're trying to compete with us from a technological perspective, from you know, getting the produ…”
Patel: xAI and Anthropic compute leads bet on space data centers by 2028
“Well, there's a bet, right, between basically the head of compute of XAI and the head of compute of Anthropic. And the bet is, what percentage of worldwide data center capacities in space by the end of 28, and the bar is one percent. And so the XAI guy is like…”
Elon Musk's new Tesla pay package could lead to merging xAI.
“Part of setting up this pay package could set up a scenario where XAI gets just merged into Tesla and it becomes a standalone. It just all gets rolled in.”
Hays: Grok companions will be xAI's largest revenue source
“I believe this will be by far the largest revenue line item for XAI within, if it's not already.”
Thompson: xAI Would Be an Incredible Acquisition Target Without X
“I think actually XAI would be an incredible acquisition target for a lot of companies if it wasn't saddled with X.”
Coogan: xAI made no ESG commitments and burns coal for training
“XAI just didn't make any ESG commitments. So they're just burning coal to just pump energy into this latest training run.”
Coogan: SpaceX developed an AI handset prototype with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips
“SpaceX developed an early prototype of an AI Focused handset. The device is said to be slimmer than the iPhone. Runs proprietary operating system. Uses XAI technology built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset.”
Paul: Anti Fund accessed SpaceX and xAI rounds through Jared Birchall
“Going into SpaceX and XAI, working with Jared Burchill to get into some of those rounds and then, you know, you're liquid very quickly.”
Coogan: Igor Babushkin Plans to Raise $1B at $5B Valuation
“So the XAI co-founder I go where Babushkin is planning to raise up to one billion at an up to five billion dollar valuation for a new AI research startup with general catalyst possibly leading.”
Hays: xAI Will Struggle to Catch Up in AI Code Generation
“Feels like really hard to catch up in CodeGen, even if you have some great people from Cursor. Like, it's just so, so, so competitive and there's, I don't see it.”
Coogan: Leading AI labs are capturing half of all venture capital
“Venture as a class in a good year will do like four hundred billion, and across OpenAI at a 100,000,000,030 for Anthropic, 20 for XAI, then you have, you know, a bunch of NeoLabs all picking up a billion each. Like, you very quickly get to a few companies Rais…”
Cosgrove: Only OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI operate at frontier scale
“I mean, especially if you're talking about these big pre-trains, it's really just these four. No one else is really at that scale.”
Hays: xAI's consumer and enterprise products have fallen behind
“As the consumer products and the enterprise products have kind of fallen behind or failed to, you know, fully catch up.”
Hays: Substack benefits because X is distracted by its xAI integration
“So much of Substack's opportunity right now is just that X is rolled into XAI and is like not operating, you know, as like a pure play standalone company.”
Hays: xAI's expansion brings training compute to nearly two gigawatts
“And we'll take XAI training compute to almost two gigawatts.”
Coogan: OpenAI's adult content will likely cause less backlash than Grok
“And then we get this, and it makes whatever erotica is going to come out of OpenAI is probably not going to be as controversial as what's happening with Grok right now, right?”
Hays: xAI's enterprise adoption didn't justify a valuation above Anthropic
“These were just rumors, but when you looked at XAI's traction relative to their valuation at the time, they were looking for a greater valuation than anthropic. And yet the enterprise adoption certainly didn't justify it by itself.”
Coogan: xAI's single $20B round exceeds SpaceX's lifetime funding
“So SpaceX has done 31 funding rounds, a lot of those have been secondary transactions, but 31 funding rounds to raise twelve billion. XAI just goes out and raises 20 in one round.”
Hays: xAI launched an NSFW anime mode in Grok
“Grok launched a NSFW anime mode to the app, audio and visual.”
Hays: Musk's brand legitimizes NSFW AI spending for mainstream users
“The unique thing about this launch is that there has never, you know, clearly many people around the world spend money on OnlyFans or other NSFW content, and, but Elon has never created a product for those type of people. And so I think the sort of latent dema…”
Coogan: Grok signed a contract with the US Department of Defense
“So one was that Grok had signed a contract with the department of defense.”
Coogan: Musk's AI edge is rapid heavy infrastructure execution
“That's really Elon's like edge here for sure.”
Coogan: xAI Used 20,000 GPUs to Train Grok 3
“XAI famously built a 100,000 GPU cluster in Memphis and now has 200,000 GPUs and used 20,000 of them to train Grok III.”
Hays: Elon Musk's infrastructure track record makes xAI a standout
“The reason to be extra bullish on XAI is that Elon is the only founder mode model, you know, CEO. I don't know if he's actually CEO or, but whatever chairman, at least who has done large scale infrastructure projects over and over and over the factories at Tes…”
Coogan: Elon Musk will have to out-raise Project Stargate
“I think it's going to be incredibly interesting to see what Elon's reaction is going to be because he's definitely going to have to out raise.”
Coogan: Super Grok Is Ending AI Companions
“It's official hot bot summer is over. Super Grok is saying goodbye to companions.”
Baker: Jensen Huang Says xAI Deploys Data Centers Faster Than Anyone
“And we know from Jensen that they bring on data centers faster than anyone else, per Jensen's words.”
Hays: xAI will eventually offer cloud services to other companies
“I think I think it will make sense over time for XAI to start offering cloud services to other companies.”
Coogan: xAI Poached Two Senior Leaders From Cursor for Coding
“XAI hired two or two senior leaders from Cursor to catch up on coding.”
Musk: xAI is pivoting Grok away from academic benchmarks toward engineering
“Elon Musk announced that XAI is moving away from traditional academic benchmarks like humanity's last exam to focus Grok on maximal utility for real world engineering and Software development.”
Hays: Only three original xAI co-founders remain at the company
“This isn't looking good, and it's the original XAI co-founders. There was one, two, three, four, five, Five, six, seven, eight. There's three remaining. Elon plus Manuel and Toby.”
xAI buys third data center facility named MacroHarder
“XAI has also bought a third building called Macro Harder.”
Hays: xAI and Nvidia will build a 500-megawatt Saudi data center
“Musk's XAI and NVIDIA to develop a data center in Saudi Arabia. It's a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi. XAI is working with NVIDIA and a Saudi Arabian partner to develop a data center in the kingdom. Musk said Wednesday at an event with the crown prince. The…”
Hays: Musk's xAI likely intends to enter the data center business
“To me, it seems much more likely that, like, they just want to be in the data center business.”
Hays: xAI Announced a $200M Contract with the Department of Defense
“It was only a month ago, Grok or XAI announced a partnership with the Department of Defense, a two hundred million dollar contract, so that's serious.”
Coogan: People disbelieve Grok because they think it is insane
“Yeah, but this is four-D chess, because in general, people don't believe Grok, because they believe it to be insane.”
Andreessen: Musk eliminated research vs product division at xAI
“Within XAI, he's now collapsed, you know, he's eliminated the distinction between research and product.”
Andreessen: Elon Musk Eliminated the Research-Product Distinction at xAI
“Elon, as usual, of course, is provoking this question, is, I'm sure you guys talked about, but, you know, he has now, you know, with NXAI, he's now collapsed, you know, he's eliminated the distinction between research and product”
Coogan: Well-funded late entrants like xAI can successfully catch up
“Well, XAI explains why it is absolutely viable to have started late, provided you have the funds catch up quickly.”
Coogan: xAI raised $6B in November and owns its GPUs
“XAI raised six billion dollars last November and actually owns its GPUs.”
Cosgrove: Grok 4.2 executes four distinct agent prompts per query
“They did this kind of interesting thing where there's like, four agents. Every time you actually do a prompt, there's, like, four agents, and the agents specifically have, like, distinct roles, where it, it's almost kind of like you have four instances of the …”
xAI shortened equity vesting cliff from 12 to 6 months
“A few months ago, XAI shortened their waiting period known as a vesting cliff from 12 months to six.”
Salesforce utilizes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI
“If you are your Slack user, you need to see the Slack bot that we introduced here, which is built on Anthropic. It's also amazing. So we use open AI. We use Anthropic. We use Gemini. I just did an interview with Sundar, you know, you can see it on YouTube. We …”