{"id":24952,"date":"2025-03-28T20:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24952"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:26:04","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-has-sold-x-to-xai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24952","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to xAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">Mr. Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/technology\/elon-musk-x-doge.html\" title>his social media company<\/a>, to xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded in 2023, in an unusual arrangement that may raise conflict-of-interest questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The all-stock deal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/24\/technology\/elon-musk-xai-funding.html\" title>valued xAI<\/a> at $80 billion and X at $30 billion, Mr. Musk said on X. The price for X is a $14 billion discount <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html\" title>from the $44 billion<\/a> that Mr. Musk paid for the social media company in 2022. Both companies are privately held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cXAI and X\u2019s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,\u201d Mr. Musk wrote in his post. \u201cThe combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The two Musk companies already share significant resources. The artificial intelligence models of xAI are trained on data posted by X users, the companies share some engineers and xAI\u2019s chatbot, Grok, was available to paying X subscribers. Last month, bankers for X told investors that some of the social media\u2019s revenue came from xAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"RelatedLinksBlock-3\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazy-loader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Musk said the deal valued xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, at $80 billion, and X at $30 billion.Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded in 2023, in an unusual arrangement that may raise conflict-of-interest questions.The all-stock deal valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $30 billion, Mr. Musk said on X. The price for X is a $14 billion discount from the $44 billion that Mr. Musk paid for the social media company in 2022. Both companies are privately held.\u201cXAI and X\u2019s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,\u201d Mr. Musk wrote in his post. \u201cThe combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge.\u201dThe two Musk companies already share significant resources. The artificial intelligence models of xAI are trained on data posted by X users, the companies share some engineers and xAI\u2019s chatbot, Grok, was available to paying X subscribers. Last month, bankers for X told investors that some of the social media\u2019s revenue came from xAI.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24954,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24955,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions\/24955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}