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xAI
Private
xAI is Elon Musk’s lab. Grok is the model, Colossus is the cluster, and the last standalone round was the mark before the SpaceX combination talk.
- Last reported post-money
- $230B
- As of
- January 2026
- Round
- Series E standalone mark.
In the Daily
· Morning Brief
They discounted the slowdown· Morning Brief
Xi’s White House State Dinner Quickly Becoming an AI Meet Up· Morning Brief
They need a czar before they have a forceAI Force next steps
· Morning Brief
She invited the frontierBrussels asks frontier labs to pace the frontier — plus Dreamforce splits on speed, Factory hits $5B, and Meta One.
· Morning Brief
The speakerphone said hoaxTrump calls Huang on stage and brands AI fears a hoax — plus Broadcom keeps its forecasts, Anthropic’s IPO calendar holds, and Watch.
· Closing Time
Closing Time: They bought the town squareNvidia signed Hugging Face. Astra started rolling. Anthropic chased distillers onto the dark web.
· Morning Brief
They booked the gigawatts before the chipsBroadcom sketched Anthropic and OpenAI gigawatt roadmaps through 2028, Astra’s opaque reasoning alarmed safety researchers, and Google priced Flash like a comeback.
· Closing Time
Closing Time: The chatbot opened a storefrontChatGPT started selling ads at scale, Nvidia bought the custom-chip hallway, the Pentagon logged in, and the financial-stability watchdog named the next crash risk.
· Morning Brief
The grid hired a campaignA PAC walked into the substation. Overnight, the software bill started waiting until the agent finishes.
· Morning Brief
OpenAI just pulled the plug on Cursor