Gillian Tan | Bloomberg — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is canvassing potential investors for a roughly $10 billion funding round that would value the company at about $75 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Valor Equity Partners are in talks to participate in the transaction, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Terms of the round aren’t finalized and could still change.
Representatives for xAI and Valor didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Representatives for Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia declined to comment. The New York Post previously reported xAI could be valued at $75 billion.
XAI has raised billions at a rapid pace. The company was last valued at about $51 billion, according to data compiled by PitchBook. The company said in December it had raised $6 billion in funding in a Series C round, after announcing another $6 billion funding round in May.
The company is a competitor to OpenAI, the AI giant that Musk helped found. He recently made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. XAI’s main product, a chatbot called Grok, is available through his social network X, formerly known as Twitter Inc.
On Thursday, Musk praised his upcoming Grok 3 chatbot as an AI model that is outperforming others that have been released thus far, adding the world would get to see it in a matter of weeks. XAI is also in talks to buy servers from Dell Technologies Inc., a deal worth more than $5 billion.
In December, xAI said investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Investments, BlackRock Inc., Kingdom Holdings Ltd., Lightspeed Venture Partners, MGX, Morgan Stanley, Oman Investment Authority, the Qatar Investment Authority, Sequoia, Valor and Vy Capital among others.
A slew of other investors have also backed the company including Nvidia Corp., DFJ Growth, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s AMD Ventures, Petra Equity Partners, Transform Investment Group and Flat Capital, PitchBook data shows.
–With assistance from Kate Clark and Katie Roof.