One Elon Musk enterprise may be making a giant funding in one other.
In keeping with a Wall Avenue Journal report that cites buyers near SpaceX, the corporate has agreed to speculate $2 billion in Musk’s AI startup xAI. The funding would reportedly be a part of the $5 billion fairness elevate (together with one other $5 billion in debt) that Morgan Stanley introduced on the finish of June.
This could be SpaceX’s first funding in xAI, and one in every of its largest investments in one other firm. The WSJ says SpaceX already makes use of xAI’s chatbot Grok to energy customer support for its Starlink web service, with plans for extra partnerships.
Musk has not been shy about utilizing his numerous firms to help one another, for instance merging xAI with X (previously Twitter) earlier this 12 months. And regardless of xAI’s latest apology for Grok’s antisemitic feedback (together with posts the place the chatbot described itself as “MechaHitler”), Tesla is bringing Grok to its autos.
