{"id":16047,"date":"2025-03-28T23:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musk-says-he-has-sold-x-to-his-a-i-start-up-xai\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T23:15:25","slug":"elon-musk-says-he-has-sold-x-to-his-a-i-start-up-xai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musk-says-he-has-sold-x-to-his-a-i-start-up-xai\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/technology\/elon-musk-x-doge.html\" title=\"\">his social media company<\/a>, to xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, in an unusual arrangement that shows the financial maneuvering inside the business empire of the world\u2019s richest man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The all-stock deal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/24\/technology\/elon-musk-xai-funding.html\" title=\"\">valued xAI<\/a> at $80 billion and X at $30 billion, Mr. Musk said on X. X\u2019s price was down <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html\" title=\"\">from the $44 billion<\/a> that Mr. Musk paid for the social media company in 2022, but higher than the $12 billion valuation that some of X\u2019s investors have recently assigned it. The last valuation of xAI, at a December fund-raising round, was about $40 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both companies are privately held and already share significant resources, such as engineers. A chatbot called Grok, made by xAI, is trained on data posted by X users and is available on X. Last month, bankers for X told investors that some of the social media company\u2019s revenue came from xAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk wrote in his post that \u201cxAI and X\u2019s futures are intertwined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cToday,\u201d he said, \u201cwe officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.\u201d He added, \u201cThe combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The deal shows how Mr. Musk can play with different parts of his business empire. In this case, he folded a company that had been losing value, X, into one that had been gaining value, xAI. Mr. Musk previously made a similar maneuver in 2016, when he used stock of his electric car company Tesla to buy <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/22\/business\/dealbook\/tesla-solarcity-elon-musk.html\" title=\"\">SolarCity<\/a>, a clean energy company where he was the largest shareholder and his cousin, Lyndon Rive, was chief executive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Tesla is a publicly traded company that must disclose its finances and other information to shareholders, most of Mr. Musk\u2019s companies are privately held and are more opaque.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>Those include the rocket manufacturer SpaceX, the tunneling start-up The Boring Company and the brain interface company Neuralink. Mr. Musk often moves resources and employees between his companies, defying traditional business norms and operating his various companies as one big Musk enterprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Linda Yaccarino, X\u2019s chief executive, wrote on X of the deal: \u201cThe future could not be brighter.\u201d X declined to comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">X and xAI have been on different trajectories. X is much more widely known, and Mr. Musk has used it as a battering ram to advance his political views, campaigning on the platform for President Trump and whipping support for his governmental cost-cutting effort, known as the Department of Government Efficiency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But X\u2019s financial outlook has declined since Mr. Musk bought the company. Most of the social media site\u2019s revenue comes from advertising, but brands have been wary to spend on X as Mr. Musk has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/29\/business\/dealbook\/elon-musk-advertisers-blackmail-iger.html\" title=\"\">courted controversy<\/a> and thrown out the company\u2019s content moderation rules in favor of a more <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/27\/technology\/elon-musk-x-posts.html\" title=\"\">anything-goes atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">X\u2019s valuation plummeted to $12 billion in December, according to Fidelity, one of the investors that participated in Mr. Musk\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While some advertisers have recently returned to X, hoping to curry favor as Mr. Musk became a close adviser to Mr. Trump, the company has yet to regain financial stability. In January, Mr. Musk told employees that revenue was \u201cunimpressive\u201d and the company was \u201cbarely breaking even.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This month, X continued to struggle to hit its revenue targets, according to an internal email seen by The New York Times. As of March 3,<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>X had served $91 million of ads this year,<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>the message said, well below its first-quarter target of $153 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe time to sprint to the finish line is now,\u201d the email said, urging sales people to pick up the pace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The company has also put down roots in Memphis, where Mr. Musk has built what he says will be the world\u2019s largest supercomputer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk started xAI in 2023 to compete with OpenAI, the A.I. lab that he co-founded and that makes ChatGPT. Mr. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and has since sued the company and offered to acquire it, arguing that only he can responsibly create A.I. that would not destroy humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">(The New York Times <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/27\/business\/media\/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html\" title=\"\">sued<\/a> OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, in December 2023 for copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. OpenAI and Microsoft have denied the claims.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last month, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/technology\/elon-musk-x-debt-sale.html\" title=\"\">X\u2019s bankers sold off much of the company\u2019s debt<\/a>, a task that they had viewed as nearly impossible before Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration. Investors who bought the debt were told that X\u2019s revenue had improved, in part because xAI was paying X to license its data, essentially funneling funds from one of Mr. Musk\u2019s companies to the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The news of Friday\u2019s deal was celebrated inside X. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is an extremely exciting step for all of us,\u201d Ms. Yaccarino wrote in an email to employees that was seen by The Times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Ryan Mac<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/technology\/musk-x-xai.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[451,213,1407,511,450,510,118,125,2825],"class_list":["post-16047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisitions-and-divestitures","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-e-commerce","tag-elon","tag-mergers","tag-musk","tag-social-media","tag-x-formerly-twitter","tag-x-ai-inc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. 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