Elon Musk's xAI Eyes $6B Funding for Massive Nvidia Chip Acquisition
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Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is raising up to $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation to purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips for a new supercomputer in Memphis. The funding includes $5 billion from Middle Eastern sovereign funds and $1 billion from other investors. xAI, which aims to "understand the true nature of the universe," released a chatbot called Grok last year to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI technologies. Musk is also engaging with President-elect Donald Trump's administration on AI policy, as Trump plans to repeal Biden's executive order on AI.
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