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.
This is just oligarchs moving their chess pieces around. Expect nothing to come of it. Expect elon to face zero consequences.
It shouldn’t be hard. If you accept the existence of billionaires you accept that some people shouldn’t ever face consequences and be rewarded for toxic behavior.
There are supposed to be consequences?
Don’t interrupt when they’re up on their soapbox