The Federal Railroad Administration, the country's rail regulator, has brought in the Boring Company, a tunneling company founded by Mr. Musk, to assist with a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project to build a new tunnel along a busy stretch of road between Baltimore, Washington and Virginia, according to three people familiar with the matter. Amtrak originally expected the project to cost $6 billion, but now estimates it could cost as much as $8.50 billion.
1. Foreign media: Apple will cooperate with Anthropic to develop AI platform writing software. 2. Foreign media: Microsoft is ready to host Musk's Grok AI model. 3. DeepSeek released the Prover-V2 model with 671 billion parameters. 4. Google embedded advertisements in AI chatbots. 5. Huang Renxun said that the United States is not imagining a quick victory in the field of AI. 6. US media: Nvidia is designing a new special version of AI chips, which has been notified to three Chinese companies. 7...
According to The Verge, Microsoft (MSFT. O) is in talks with Musk's startup XAI about the latter's large-scale Grok AI model.
On May 2nd, according to The Verge, a reliable source familiar with Microsoft's plans revealed that Microsoft has been instructing engineers in its artificial intelligence infrastructure to prepare to host Musk's Grok AI model. In recent weeks, Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI to host the Grok model and make it available to customers and Microsoft's own product teams through Azure Cloud as a Service. The move is likely to cause controversy internally and further inflame tensions with M...
According to The Verge, a reliable source familiar with Microsoft's plans has revealed that Microsoft has been instructing engineers in its artificial intelligence infrastructure to be ready to host Musk's Grok AI model. In recent weeks, Microsoft has been in discussions with xAI about hosting the Grok model and making it available to customers and Microsoft's own product teams through Azure Cloud as a Service. The move is likely to cause controversy internally and further escalate its partnersh...
On April 26th, according to people familiar with the matter, Elon Musk's xAI holding company is in talks with investors to raise about 20 billion US dollars for its newly integrated artificial intelligence start-up and social media business. If the deal is completed, according to data provider PitchBook, this will be the second largest start-up financing round ever, after OpenAI's $40 billion funding round earlier this year. According to people familiar with the matter, the size of this round of...
Musk's xAI: When we set out to build a fast, affordable mini-model, we knew it would be good, but even we didn't expect it to be this good. Here are some of the most outstanding results: The Grok 3 Mini is at the top of the STEM, math, and coding charts at the graduate level. The Grok 3 family has now joined our API.
Market news: The European Union will investigate the use of personal data by Musk's X artificial intelligence chatbot.
Space Systems Command awarded Musk's space exploration company SpaceX a $6 billion launch contract, United Launch Alliance a $5.40 billion contract, and Bezos' Blue Origin a $2.40 billion contract.
On March 26, according to Techstartups, Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI AI application Grok has officially landed on Telegram, enabling it to access the messaging platform with more than 1 billion monthly active users. It is reported that Telegram Premium users will not need to pay extra. Analysts believe that Grok's introduction of Telegram may give it an advantage in the competition with WhatsApp and Signal.
Musk's X Company raised nearly $1 billion in a new round of equity financing.
Musk's xAI has formally acquired Hotshot, an AI video generation startup focused on developing artificial intelligence video generation technology similar to OpenAI Sora. Hotshot said on its website that it stopped new video making services on March 14, and it is unclear whether all Hotshot employees will join xAI.
On March 8, according to a statement released by the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce in Tennessee on March 7 local time, Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has purchased a 1 million-square-foot property in southwest Memphis, which is another expansion move after announcing the expansion of the supercomputer "Colossus" in the city in December last year. The statement said that the new facility will complement xAI's existing business and support the company's expansion in Memphis. The ...
Grok, a big language model owned by Musk, replied on Twitter: As Grok, I suggest using "GrokCoin" as the name for memecoin - both fun and relevant to my AI identity, but also appealing to cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Meme coins usually draw inspiration from internet trends and humor, such as Dogecoin's dog meme roots, and can gain attention through community engagement on platforms such as X. Someone then posted grokcoin of the same name through a comment to guide Grok to reply and post the contr...
Recently, an OpenAI employee publicly criticized Elon Musk's xAI company, saying that the benchmark results of its latest AI model Grok3 were misleading. In response, xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin insisted that the company was not improper. The xAI chart shows that two versions of Grok3 - Grok3 Reasoning Beta and Grok3 mini Reasoning - outperformed OpenAI's current strongest available model, o3-mini-high, at AIME 2025. However, OpenAI employees soon...