Published on: 2025-06-10 20:50:52
In Brief Billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is reportedly launching a $300 million share sale that values the company at $113 billion. The secondary stock offering, which comes after xAI acquired Musk’s social media platform, X, for $33 billion, will allow staff to sell shares to new investors. The tender offer will likely precede a larger investment round in which xAI will offer new equity to outside backers. As The Financial Times notes, xAI is looking to raise additional cash while M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 06:05:44
The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach to the operation of this dirty data center” and calling on them to “issue an emergency order for xAI to stop operations completely” — or if th
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Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Elon Musk's startup xAI is paying the Dubai-based messaging platform Telegram $300 million to roll out its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced in a post Wednesday. Durov said he and Musk struck a yearlong partnership that "strengthens Telegram's financial position." In addition to the $300 million payment from xAI, Telegram will also earn 50%
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 19:39:00
Under a deal announced Wednesday, Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, will be available to Telegram users for one year starting sometime in the summer. Telegram is a cloud-based social media and instant messaging service that is free but offers a paid tier. According to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who announced the partnership on X, Telegram users will be able to pin Grok to the top of their chats. Users will be able to ask questions, create stickers, write suggestions and summarize chats, links and d
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Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year. xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat app as part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday. Durov said Telegram will also earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through the app. Earlier this year, xAI made the Grok chatbot available to Telegram
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 20:13:32
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. xAI and Telegram did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment. "This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market," Durov wrote. In addition to the $300 million payment from xAI, Telegram will also earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions that are sold on the platform, according to Durov. Durov said he and Musk struck a year-l
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Elon Musk's xAI is paying the messaging platform Telegram a cool $300 million to introduce the chatbot Grok to its users . The terms of the deal are extremely favorable to Telegram, as the $300 million only covers a single year and xAI will evenly split any subscription sales to Grok Premium and Premium+ with the messaging platform. Telegram will be paid in both cash and equity. Telegram and xAI have agreed to a 1-year partnership to distribute Grok to Telegram’s billion+ users and integrate it
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Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year. xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat app as part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday. Durov said Telegram will also earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through the app. Earlier this year, xAI made the Grok chatbot available to Telegram
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Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year. xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat app as part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday. Durov said Telegram will also earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through the app. Earlier this year, xAI made the Grok chatbot available to Telegram
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 03:59:58
Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI "Together, we win!", he posted on social media. Mr Durov said the arrangement - which is due to last a year - would see his company receive $300m (£223m) in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram. Announcing the deal on social media, Telegram boss Pavel Durov said it would see his firm distribute the AI assistant, Grok, to Telegram's "billion+ users and integrate it into its apps". The encrypted me
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 09:51:02
xAI, founded by Elon Musk, is preparing to launch Grok 3.5, the company's next state-of-the-art AI model. Grok AI has been around for a year now. While it was late to the game, the Grok model is pretty decent, and it's quite impressive what the company has achieved in a limited time. Right now, xAI offers Grok 3 to free and paid customers, but it has been planning to launch Grok 3.5 for a while now. In fact, Grok 3.5 was planned for release in May 2025, but we haven't seen any announcements f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 07:18:37
In Brief Amanda Scales, the former xAI HR exec who helped lead billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative while working at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, recently returned to xAI, according to The New York Times. Scales used to work on talent acquisition at xAI. Since April, she’s worked on the talent side of the company once again, per her LinkedIn profile. Previously, Scales was in human resources and talent at San Francisco-based VC firm Human Capital,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 16:46:19
Elon Musk interviews on CNBC from the Tesla Headquarters in Texas. Elon Musk said Tuesday that he expects Tesla and xAI will continue buying chips from semiconductor giants Nvidia and AMD , and possibly others. Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which now owns X (formerly Twitter) has already installed 200,000 GPUs at its Colossus facility in Memphis, the Tesla CEO told CNBC's David Faber on Tuesday. XAI is also planning a 1 million GPU facility outside of Memphis, Musk said. He did
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Fresh off its "white genocide" freakout, Elon Musk's Grok AI is now engaged in Holocaust denial. Over the weekend, a random provocateur asked the chatbot built into Musk's social network about the Jewish death toll during one of history's darkest chapters — and Grok responded with self-attested skepticism. "Historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945," read the chatbot's response. "However, I’m skeptical of
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Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II by saying that “historical records, often cited by mainstream sources, claim around 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945.” However, Grok then said it was “skeptical of these figures wi
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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is blaming its multibillion-dollar chatbot's inexplicable meltdown into rants about "white genocide" on an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's code. On Wednesday, Grok completely lost its marbles and began responding to any and all posts on X-formerly-Twitter – MLB highlights, HBO Max name updates, political content, adorable TikTok videos of piglets — with bizarre ramblings about claims of "white genocide" in South Africa and analyses of the anti-Apartheid song "
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. xAI has published the system prompts for its AI chatbot Grok after an “unauthorized” change led to a slew of unprompted responses on X about white genocide. The company says it will publish its Grok system prompts on GitHub from now on, which provide some insight into the way xAI has instructed Grok to respond to users. A system prompt is a set of
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has missed a self-imposed deadline to publish a finalized AI safety framework, as noted by watchdog group The Midas Project. xAI isn’t exactly known for its strong commitments to AI safety as it’s commonly understood. A recent report found that the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, would undress photos of women when asked. Grok can also be considerably more crass than chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT, cursing without much restraint to speak of. Nonetheless, in February a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 02:29:18
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is building one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since coming online in September, the facility, dubbed Colossus, has amassed an absurd arsenal of 200,000 Nvidia graphics processing units to train Musk's chatbot, Grok. That comes with monstrous energy demands, and the way xAI is meeting them has angered environmental groups and the residents of Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood just three miles south of t
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Kolin Koltai, a researcher at the Netherlands-based investigative outlet Bellingcat, recently discovered that X users were using the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, to undress women in photos that they had uploaded to the platform. While the bot rejects prompts that ask to make people entirely nude, it’s willing to walk right up to the line of non-consensual sexual imagery. Users who replied to images of women and requested that Grok “remove her clothes” received an in-thread reply with an image o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 03:56:02
An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Philippe Caturegli, “chief hacking officer” at the security consultancy Seralys, was the first to publicize the leak of credentials for an x
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$ tmuxai find large files and cleanup some space TmuxAI » I'll help you find large files taking up space in this directory. TmuxAI » find . -type f -size +100M -exec du -h {} \; | sort -rh | head -5 Do you want to execute this command? [Y]es/No/Edit: TmuxAI » Found several large files in node_modules and logs directories. TmuxAI » rm -i ./logs/debug-*.log
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The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk's xAI Holdings is in discussions with investors to raise about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding would value the company at over $120 billion, according to the report. The amount could be more than $20 billion as the exact figure has not been decided, the repor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 04:15:32
Elon Musk raced to build Colossus, the world's largest supercomputer, in Memphis, Tennessee. He bragged that construction only took 122 days and expected that his biggest AI rivals would struggle to catch up. To leap ahead, his firm xAI "removed whatever was unnecessary" to complete the build, questioning "everything" that might delay operations and taking the timeline "into our own hands," xAI's website said. Now, xAI is facing calls to shut down gas turbines that power the supercomputer, as
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xAI’s Grok chatbot can now answer questions about what’s in view of your smartphone’s camera, similar to real-time vision features available for Google’s Gemini and ChatGPT. On Tuesday, xAI announced the launch of Grok Vision, which lets users point their phone at objects like products, signs, and documents and ask questions about them. Grok Vision is accessible from the Grok app for iOS, but not the Grok Android app just yet. GROK CAN SEE WHAT YOU SEE—LITERALLY Grok’s voice mode comes with ca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 00:25:25
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025. Elon Musk is looking to put "proper value" on his artificial intelligence startup xAI, sources told CNBC's David Faber. The comments came during a call with xAI investors last week, sources familiar with the matter told Faber. While the Tesla CEO didn't explicitly address an upcoming funding round, the sources interpreted the comments as a sign that xAI is getting set up for a significan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 10:11:15
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details from past conversations. Now, if you ask Grok for recommendations, it’ll give more personalized responses — assuming you’ve used it enough to allow it to “learn” your preferences. ChatGPT has long had a similar memory feature, which was recently upgraded to reference a use
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-29 23:00:00
When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock deal, it raised some eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. xAI’s chatbot, Grok, was already deeply integrated with X, X was floundering financially, and Musk needed a way to make his $44 billion Twitter acquisition look less like an impulsive takeover and more like a strategic play for AGI dominance. It also pointed to something deeper about how Mus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 19:32:33
Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI. But that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API. It has been several months since xAI unveiled Grok 3, the company’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini. Grok 3 can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on Musk’s social network, X, which not-so-coincidentally acquired xAI in March. xAI is offering two flavors of Grok 3
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-20 22:01:34
Musk's xAI buys his social media platform X Elon Musk attends a meeting with President Trump and members of his cabinet in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, DC, USA, 24 March 2025. "xAI and X's futures are intertwined," Musk wrote on X Friday. "Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent." In an X post Friday, Musk said the all-stock transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. Elon Musk says that his AI venture xA
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