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.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    He can’t even justify to himself that Twitter is worth the $44 billion he (and investors) paid for it.

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      And you’d think a self-perceived business genius would be able to significantly increase the value of said purchase, not lose billions.

        • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          5 days ago

          Idk man, he’s lost like $200billion dollars or something since the inauguration. Is more unpopular than ever to the point that his car company’s sales are crashing by >50% in some markets.

          Maybe he’s just an idiot clown in an clown idiot system.