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SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence company xAI. The investment makes up nearly half of the company's recent $5 billion equity round, according to investors cited by The Wall Street Journal.
AI explained why Grok 4 seemed to search for Elon Musk's opinions when asked about some hot-button topics.
In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”
AI safety researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic are criticizing Elon Musk's xAI for "completely irresponsible" safety practices.
From Grok's antisemitic rants to the permit for turbines in Memphis, here's a look at some of the latest news surrounding Elon Musk's xAI.
One of the new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with, is a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani."
(Reuters) -Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to lease data center capacity in Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, as part of an effort to expand its infrastructure in regions offering cheap energy and political goodwill.
Ani, an anime avatar wearing a tight black dress, was launched the same day the tech billionaire was awarded a $200 million Department of Defense contract.