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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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
Hays: xAI's expansion brings training compute to nearly two gigawatts
“And we'll take XAI training compute to almost two gigawatts.”
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.”
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: 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.”
Coogan: xAI Poached Two Senior Leaders From Cursor for Coding
“XAI hired two or two senior leaders from Cursor to catch up on coding.”
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: 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.”
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.”
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 …”