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Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion

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Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion

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News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

In a social media post on Friday, Elon Musk said his startup xAI has acquired his social media company X.

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Elon Musk announced that his AI startup xAI has merged with his social media platform X in an all-stock deal, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.

Musk stated the merger will combine AI expertise with X’s broad reach.

xAI, launched less than two years ago, competes with OpenAI and has developed the Grok chatbot, integrated with X.

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oh cool, I just bought my own student loans and it says here that the federal government now owes me triple back what I’ve paid plus interest, isn’t that something?!

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