{"id":59809,"date":"2024-05-27T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/elon-musks-xai-raises-6-billion-in-bid-to-challenge-openai\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:38:35","slug":"elon-musks-xai-raises-6-billion-in-bid-to-challenge-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/27\/elon-musks-xai-raises-6-billion-in-bid-to-challenge-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI Raises $6 Billion in Bid to Challenge OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/grok_Ai_bloomberg_1714831795315.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI Raises  Billion in Bid to Challenge OpenAI\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI Raises  Billion in Bid to Challenge OpenAI\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk&#8217;s<\/a> artificial intelligence startup <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/xai\">xAI<\/a> has raised $6 billion (roughly Rs.\u00a049,857 crore)\u00a0to accelerate its challenge to his former allies at <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Series B round, announced in a blog post on May 26, comes less than a year after xAI&#8217;s debut and marks one of the bigger investments in the nascent field of developing AI tools. Musk had been an early supporter of artificial intelligence, backing OpenAI before it introduced <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a> in late 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He later withdrew his support from the venture and has advocated caution because of the technology&#8217;s potential dangers. He was among a large group of industry leaders urging a pause to AI development last year.<\/p>\n<p>Musk launched a rival to OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT in November, called <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/grok\">Grok<\/a>, which was trained on and integrated into X.com, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That has so far been the most visible product of xAI&#8217;s work, which is led by executives with prior experience at Alphabet&#8217;s DeepMind, Microsoft and Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>The company intends to use the funds to bring its first products to market, build advanced infrastructure and accelerate the development of future technologies, it said in the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Its pre-money valuation was $18 billion (roughly Rs. 1,49,571 crore), Musk said in a post on X. Marquee venture capital names including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz backed the fundraising, which is one of the largest so far in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has invested about $13 billion (roughly Rs.\u00a01,08,024 crore) in OpenAI, while Amazon.com put about $4 billion (roughly Rs.\u00a033,238 crore) into Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2024 Bloomberg LP<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"downloadtxt\"><i>Affiliate links may be automatically generated &#8211; see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethics statement<\/a> for details.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/ai\/news\/elon-musk-ai-startup-xai-raises-usd-6-billion-openai-challenge-5755873#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence startup xAI has raised $6 billion (roughly Rs.\u00a049,857 crore)\u00a0to accelerate its challenge to his former allies at OpenAI. The Series B round, announced in a blog post on May 26, comes less than a year after xAI&#8217;s debut and marks one of the bigger investments in the nascent field of developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/grok_Ai_bloomberg_1714831795315.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[1274,8192,1289,6080,10240,2534,58088,2535,1101,506,9296,5377],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59811,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59809\/revisions\/59811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}