{"id":28808,"date":"2025-02-15T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28808"},"modified":"2025-02-15T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:26:44","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e9%a9%ac%e6%96%af%e5%85%8b-xai-%e6%ad%a3%e5%af%bb%e6%b1%82-100-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84%ef%bc%8c%e4%bc%b0%e5%80%bc%e6%9c%89%e6%9c%9b%e8%be%be%e5%88%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28808.html","title":{"rendered":"Musk's xAI Seeks $10 Billion in Funding, Valuation Expected to Hit $75 Billion, Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg today cited people familiar with the matter as saying that Elon...<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%a9%ac%e6%96%af%e5%85%8b\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Musk]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Musk<\/a>of artificial intelligence (AI) companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/xai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [xAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >xA<\/a> is seeking about $10 billion (note: currently about RMB 72,654 million) for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>This round of funding is expected to value the company at $75 billion (currently around Rs 544.904 billion).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28809\" title=\"18eba0c3j00srpg7o001ed000om00dcp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18eba0c3j00srpg7o001ed000om00dcp.jpg\" alt=\"18eba0c3j00srpg7o001ed000om00dcp\" width=\"886\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Valor Equity Partners are in discussions to participate in the deal. Specific terms of the financing have not been finalized and may be adjusted, the person familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>xAI has been raising money at an alarming rate. According to PitchBook, xAI\u00a0<strong>Recently valued at approximately $51 billion<\/strong>(currently around 370,535 million yuan). The company had announced a $6 billion Series C funding round in December last year, and in May it announced the launch of another round, also for $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>xAI is a competitor to OpenAI, of which Musk is one of the founders. He recently offered to buy the assets of the nonprofit organization that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. xAI's main product is a chatbot called Grok, which is available through the social platform X. xAI's main product is a chatbot called Grok.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday local time, Musk claimed that his upcoming Grok 3 chatbot has surpassed the<strong>Other AI models released to date<\/strong>The company also said that the world will see the product \"within weeks\". Not only that, but xAI is also in talks with Dell Technologies about the value of the acquisition.<strong>Over $5 billion in servers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>PitchBook's data also shows that several investors, including NVIDIA, DFJ Growth, AMD Ventures, Petra Equity Partners, Transform Investment Group and Flat Capital, have also backed the company.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 15, according to information from sources quoted today by Bloomberg, Ellon Mask's artificial intelligence company XAI is seeking financing of about $10 billion (note: currently about RMB 72.654 billion), which is expected to bring the company's valuation to $75 billion (currently about RMB 5449.04 billion). Existing investors, including Redwood capital, Andressen Horowitz and Valor Equity Partners, are discussing participation in the deal. The source indicated that specific provisions for financing had not been finalized and might be adjusted. XAI has been raising funds at an alarming rate. 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