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Elon Musk's xAI raises $20b in the latest funding round

January 08, 2026

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The oversubscribed round draws support from firms like Nvidia

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI announced yesterday it has raised $20 billion in its latest funding round, surpassing its initial $15 billion target as the company accelerates development of its Grok AI models.

Founded by Musk, xAI competes in an increasingly crowded generative AI market against OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Anthropic, among others.

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