In a social media post on Friday, Elon Musk said his startup xAI has acquired his social media company X.

Summary

Elon Musk announced that his AI startup xAI has merged with his social media platform X in an all-stock deal, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.

Musk stated the merger will combine AI expertise with X’s broad reach.

xAI, launched less than two years ago, competes with OpenAI and has developed the Grok chatbot, integrated with X.

  • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    while he simultaneously claims AI is less than a decade away from eradicating all humans. how very philanthropist of him.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      I think he made an attempt to force regulation on it, with the purpose of delaying development so he could catch up, because he is way way behind.