{"id":180444,"date":"2025-07-13T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/elon-musks-spacex-might-invest-2-billion-in-musks-xai-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:12:17","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-might-invest-2-billion-in-musks-xai-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/elon-musks-spacex-might-invest-2-billion-in-musks-xai-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX might invest $2 billion in Musk\u2019s xAI | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/spacex-to-invest-2-billion-into-elon-musks-xai-413934de\" target=\"_blank\">a Wall Street Journal report<\/a> that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to invest $2 billion in Musk\u2019s AI startup xAI. The investment would reportedly be part of the $5 billion equity raise (along with another $5 billion in debt) that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/01\/xai-raises-10b-in-debt-and-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Stanley announced<\/a> at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would be SpaceX\u2019s first investment in xAI, and one of its biggest investments in another company. The WSJ says SpaceX already uses xAI\u2019s chatbot Grok to power customer service for its Starlink internet service, with plans for more partnerships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk has not been shy about using his various companies to support each other, for example <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/12\/the-xai-x-merger-is-a-good-deal-if-youre-betting-on-musks-empire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merging xAI with X<\/a> (formerly Twitter) earlier this year. And despite <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/12\/xai-and-grok-apologize-for-horrific-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xAI\u2019s recent apology for Grok\u2019s antisemitic comments<\/a> (including posts where the chatbot described itself as \u201cMechaHitler\u201d), Tesla is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/10\/grok-is-coming-to-tesla-vehicles-next-week-says-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bringing Grok to its vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/13\/elon-musks-spacex-might-invest-2-billion-in-musks-xai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another. According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to invest $2 billion in Musk\u2019s AI startup xAI. The investment would reportedly be part of the $5 billion equity raise (along with another $5 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-180444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}