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xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training

xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI.  —  xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …

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  • @tetsuoai Tetsuo on x
    xAI raised $20B in a Series E that was targeting $15B 600M monthly active users. 1M+ H100 GPU equivalents. Grok 5 already in training. The AI race is getting wild. https://x.ai/...
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    Congrats to the @xAI team and thank you to investors for your faith in our company
  • @edenchan Eden Chan on x
    Talent density is downstream of aura (in the form of compute advantage, scope of ambition, and execution) Can't think of any company remotely close to Tesla or SpaceX. Similarly, can't think of any lab remotely close to xAI.
  • @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
    xAI has completed its series E and raised $20 billion. The post also confirms that Grok 5 is now in training, and that xAI will soon be launching new consumer and enterprise products. [image]
  • @kevinxu Kevin Xu on x
    what the actual fuck [image]
  • @alvinfoo Alvin Foo on x
    xAI, Elon Musk's AI company behind the Grok chatbot announced that it has raised a massive $20 billion in a Series E funding round! 🔥 Congrats @elonmusk and the entire team at @xai!!
  • @yuhu_ai_ @yuhu_ai_ on x
    🚀
  • @yuchenj_uw Yuchen Jin on x
    xAI has the most unique strategy and culture imo. It's the only AI lab that owns a social media: X. This means two things: real-time data and ~250M daily users. Elon's play is clear: Push Grok everywhere on X. Hence “maximum truth-seeking AI,” bikini-on-everything, Ani the
  • @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x
    xAI just closed $20B at roughly $240B valuation. This round matters more than the headline suggests. The math first. In 18 months, Musk built a company worth nearly half of OpenAI while raising a fraction of what Sam Altman has accumulated. xAI's total capital sits around
  • @nearlydaniel Daniel on x
    for those asking, yes we will do a Series X soon, and it will be awesome [image]
  • @jimmybajimmyba Jimmy Ba on x
    accelerating towards a compute driven economy
  • @thomasslabbers Thomas Slabbers on x
    This single investment round is literally half the valuation of the entire Heineken company (€39B). xAI just raised half a Heineken. Congrats xAI!
  • @krishnanrohit Rohit on x
    600m MAUs is an intriguing nugget considering xAI is the only AI lab to own a social media business, which itself has 600m MAUs.
  • @ayushjaiswal Ayush Jaiswal on x
    A lot more compute for the best engineers. The future is getting built here, the only model designed to be seeking the truth with so much noise on the Internet. The talent density is absolutely incredible. It's incredible how much this small team is able to push. Join this team,
  • @sawyermerritt Sawyer Merritt on x
    NEWS: Elon Musk's company @xAI just has officially announced that they've raised $20 billion. “Grok 5 is currently in training, and we are focused on launching innovative new consumer and enterprise products that harness the power of Grok, Colossus, and 𝕏 to transform how we [ima…
  • @josephjacks_ @josephjacks_ on x
    xAI : 3 years old. Raised $40B. > 600M users. > 60% owned and controlled by Elon. Anthropic : 5 years old. Raised $40B. < 100M users. < 10% owned by founders.
  • @shaunmmaguire Shaun Maguire on x
    Congrats to the xAI team! Macroharding 🚀
  • @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
    This is the first mention of Grok 5, we should be getting the new Grok 4.x very shortly, as they were originally aiming for late December release.
  • @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky
    Silicon Valley's hottest CSAM generator has another $20 billion for its war chest!  I hope it has to spend it all on legal fees [embedded post]
  • r/singularity r on reddit
    xAi raised 20B in funding round (exceeding their 15B target comfortably)
  • r/teslainvestorsclub r on reddit
    xAI Raises $20B Series E