XAI
Artificial Intelligence focused startup
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| May 6 2025 | The New Yorker reported on xAI's environmental concerns, revealing 33 generators were running at the Colossus supercomputer site, potentially operating without necessary permits. |
| April 24 2025 | xAI's website began listing jobs for the X platform, previously exclusive to the platform itself. |
| March 28 2025 | Elon Musk announced xAI's acquisition of X Corp. (the X platform) in an all-stock transaction, with xAI valued at $80 billion and X platform at $33 billion. |
| March 2025 | xAI added an image editing feature to Grok and introduced Deeper search, a feature that scrapes the internet for sources. |
| March 17 2025 | xAI acquired Hotshot, a startup specializing in AI-powered video generation tools. |
| February 17 2025 | xAI released Grok-3 and other updates to the Grok platform. |
| February 15 2025 | Elon Musk announced the upcoming release of Grok 3 on February 17, claiming it to be the smartest AI on earth. |
| February 10 2025 | xAI and other investors made an offer to acquire OpenAI for $97.4 billion. |
| December 23 2024 | xAI raised an additional $6 billion in a funding round supported by Fidelity, BlackRock, and Sequoia Capital, bringing its total funding to over $12 billion. |
| December 9 2024 | xAI released Aurora, a text-to-image model. |
| October 21 2024 | xAI released an applications programming interface (API). |
| August 14 2024 | Grok-2 was made available to X Premium subscribers, introducing the first Grok model with image generation capabilities. |
| June 2024 | Greater Memphis Chamber announced xAI's plan to build Colossus, the world's largest supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, which became fully operational in December 2024 after a 122-day construction. |
| May 2024 | Musk predicted that AI will make most jobs obsolete, suggesting the need for a high universal basic income. |
| May 2024 | xAI sought $6 billion in funding and secured support from venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Tribe Capital. |
| April 12 2024 | xAI announced Grok-1.5 Vision (Grok-1.5V), capable of processing various visual information including documents, diagrams, graphs, screenshots, and photographs. |
| March 2024 | Grok was made available to all X Premium subscribers, expanding from its previous Premium+ exclusive access. |
| March 29 2024 | xAI announced Grok-1.5 with improved reasoning capabilities and an expanded context length of 128,000 tokens. |
| March 17 2024 | xAI released Grok-1 as an open-source model. |
| December 2023 | xAI filed an SEC document revealing it raised US$134.7 million in outside funding, with a potential total of up to $1 billion. |
| November 6 2023 | xAI released PromptIDE, an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research, providing tools for exploring and refining prompts for large language models. |
| November 4 2023 | xAI unveiled Grok, an AI chatbot integrated with X, initially available only to X's Premium+ subscribers. |
| July 12 2023 | Musk officially announced the formation of xAI, with Igor Babuschkin (formerly from Google DeepMind) recruited as Chief Engineer. |
| July 12 2023 | Musk officially announced the formation of xAI, symbolically linking the date's numerical sum (42) to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the company's mission to 'understand the universe'. |
| March 9 2023 | Elon Musk founded xAI in Nevada, establishing the company's initial headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. |
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