Musk announces $6 billion investment in AI project to compete with OpenAI

Published May 27, 2024 1:52pm ET



Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence startup, known as xAI, has received a $6 billion boost, constituting one of the industry’s largest-ever funding rounds to date.

Investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and Kingdom Holding, will help xAI compete against Microsoft and OpenAI, which produced ChatGPT.

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