{"id":7359,"date":"2024-04-07T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2024-04-07T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:41:12","slug":"%e9%a9%ac%e6%96%af%e5%85%8b%e7%9a%84%e6%9c%8b%e5%8f%8b%e5%b0%86%e5%b8%ae%e5%8a%a9-xai-%e7%ad%b9%e9%9b%86-30-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/7359.html","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#039;s friends will help xAI raise $3 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>AI startups are seeing a significant wave of support as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/xai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [xAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >xA<\/a> The race is on to catch up with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in a tight race.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, investors with close ties to the CEOs of Tesla and SpaceX are in talks to help xAI raise $100 million in a round of funding.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>Sources said Steve Jewison and venture capital firm Gigafund are among the potential backers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7360\" title=\"202307180849462170_0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/202307180849462170_0.jpg\" alt=\"202307180849462170_0\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, Jefferson is a friend of Musk, has served on the board of directors of SpaceX, and has served on the board of directors of Tesla. Meanwhile, Gigafund co-founder Luke Nosek is also a member of the board of directors of SpaceX and is known as the &quot;PayPal gang&quot; with Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Musk founded xAI last year as a competitor to ChatGPT&#039;s parent company OpenAI, which he co-founded but later sued, claiming it had abandoned its original nonprofit mission. xAI launched its own chatbot, Grok, in November and released an updated version last month.<\/p>\n<p>News of a possible $3 billion funding round comes as xAI seeks more funding<span class=\"spamTxt\">up to date<\/span>The move comes as rival OpenAI has secured a $13 billion commitment from Microsoft and Anthropic has raised $6 billion from backers including Google and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Financial Times reported that Musk was seeking to raise up to $6 billion for xAI, although it later denied that he was raising funds. In December, a regulatory filing showed that xAI was seeking to raise $1 billion from investors and had received nearly $135 million in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the battle for investor support in the field of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly fierce, and xAI and its competitors are also competing for artificial intelligence talent. After news broke on Wednesday that Tesla&#039;s Ethan Knight had become the company&#039;s fourth engineer to join xAI, Musk wrote on Twitter that Knight had planned to defect to OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe either joins xAI or they join him,\u201d Musk wrote, noting that he also raised salaries for AI engineers. He added: \u201cThe war for talent in AI is the craziest I\u2019ve ever seen!\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Mask's artificial-intellectual start-up company is on the verge of an important wave of support, with competitions like XAI in pursuit of OpenAI and Anthropic in a fierce competition. According to Wall Street Journal, investors with close ties to Tesla and SpaceX CEOs are negotiating plans to help XAI raise $3 billion in a round of financing, and sources have revealed that Steve Jefferson and Windward are among the potential supporters. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jefferson is a friend of Musk who served on the SpaceX Board and on the Tesla Board. Meanwhile, Luke Northek, co-founder of Gigafund, is also Space<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[356,421,355],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-xai","tag-421","tag-355"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}