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“xAI Reportedly Seeking $15 Billion Raise at a Massive $230 Billion Valuation” 🚨🚨🚨

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is reportedly looking to raise $15 billion at a staggering $230 billion valuation, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The fundraising effort underscores both the company’s rapid ambitions and the enormous costs tied to competing at the top of the AI industry.

xAI continues to burn through capital as it races to build its Colossus 2 supercomputing data center in Tennessee—an infrastructure project set to become one of the largest AI facilities in the world. Just last month, reports revealed that the company will need to spend roughly $18 billion to acquire an additional 300,000 Nvidia GPUs, a massive hardware buy that highlights the scale of compute required for cutting-edge AI models.

Despite these heavy investments, xAI still trails behind its competitors when it comes to consumer adoption. A September report found that the company’s Grok chatbot had just 64 million monthly users, compared to ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly users, leaving xAI in a distant third place in the AI engagement race.

Still, investor interest remains strong. A $230 billion valuation would instantly position xAI among the most valuable private tech companies in the world—reflecting both the market’s confidence in Musk’s AI vision and the broader belief that the next generation of foundational models will require unprecedented levels of compute, capital, and scale.

Whether the company can convert massive spending into rapid user growth remains one of the biggest questions hanging over this funding round.