{"id":57057,"date":"2026-02-03T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/spacex-merges-with-xai-in-landmark-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:14:26","slug":"spacex-merges-with-xai-in-landmark-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/spacex-merges-with-xai-in-landmark-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX merges with xAI in landmark deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX confirmed the takeover of xAI , the company behind the Grok chatbot, in a memo from Musk published on its website. <\/p>\n

He described the merger as the creation of an \u201cinnovation engine\u201d bringing together AI, rockets, satellite internet and media under a single structure.<\/p>\n

Financial terms were not disclosed, but a source familiar with the deal said xAI was valued at about $125bn, while SpaceX was pegged at $1tn, potentially making it the world\u2019s most valuable private company.<\/p>\n

The move follows Tesla\u2019s $2bn investment in xAI announced last month. At the time, Musk told Tesla investors that xAI could act as an \u201corchestra conductor\u201d for the company\u2019s factories, particularly as it shifts toward autonomous robots. Tesla has since said it will stop producing two vehicle models to focus on robotics, a decision that faced resistance from some shareholders.<\/p>\n

Industry analysts see the deal as a step toward a future stock market debut. Emily Zheng, a senior analyst at Pitchbook, said the consolidation \u201chas all the markings of a company preparing for a public listing,\u201d citing the high costs of AI infrastructure and energy. <\/p>\n

\u201cConsolidating these companies ahead of an IPO [electric car company] allows SpaceX to present a differentiated, capital-efficient growth narrative,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In the memo, Musk argued that space offers the long-term solution to AI\u2019s energy demands.
\n\u201cIn the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,\u201d he wrote, pointing to AI satellites and space-based data centres as a near-term focus.<\/p>\n

xAI, which emerged from X (formerly Twitter), has also faced scrutiny in Europe over Grok\u2019s image-generation features. The company said it has since imposed new restrictions on users.<\/p>\n

\"Elon<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has moved to acquire his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, further consolidating the billionaire\u2019s expanding business empire around space, AI and advanced robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000101535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000101535,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ais.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ais.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ais.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ais.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ais.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ais.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000101535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57057"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57057"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}