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xAI

Frontier AI Lab
Founded Jul 2023 (2 years old)HQ: Palo Alto, CAx.ai

Also known as: xAI Corp, X.AI

Funding History

6
Series EequityJan 2026
$20Bat $230B valuation
Series E round of $20 billion (upsized from initial $15B target). Investors include Valor Equity Partners, StepStone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, Baron Capital Group, NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, and Tesla (~$2B subject to regulatory approvals). Strategic investors NVIDIA and Cisco participated to support GPU infrastructure scaling.
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Debt Financingconvertible_noteJul 2025
$5BLed by Morgan Stanley
xAI raised $5 billion in debt (secured notes and term loans) via Morgan Stanley. The debt offering was oversubscribed and included prominent global debt investors. Proceeds intended for general corporate purposes, including AI infrastructure buildout and Grok platform development.
techcrunch.com
Series DequityJul 2025
$5B
Alongside the $5B debt raise, xAI closed a separate $5 billion strategic equity investment, announced by Morgan Stanley on July 1, 2025. Subsequently, in September 2025 xAI raised an additional $10B+ equity round at a $200 billion valuation (investors: Valor Capital, Qatar Investment Authority, Kingdom Holding Co./Prince Al Waleed bin Talal), bringing total Series D-era equity to over $10B.
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Series CequityDec 2024
$6Bat $50B valuation
Series C round of $6 billion. Investors include A16Z, BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA (Oman Investment Authority), QIA (Qatar Investment Authority), Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, and strategic investors NVIDIA and AMD. Total funding exceeded $12 billion after this round.
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Series BequityMay 2024
$6Bat $24B valuationLed by Valor Equity Partners
Series B round of $6 billion at a $24 billion post-money valuation (pre-money was $18B per Musk). Investors include Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Co., Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, among others.
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SeedequityDec 2023
$135M
xAI disclosed a $134.7M raise in a December 2023 SEC filing, out of a targeted total of up to $1 billion. This was xAI's first outside funding round.
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All Facts

Financial

Headcount4,00020252 pts
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20254,000view →
Dec 2024200view →
Needs attentionProduct Revenue$88MSep 2025view →
Needs attentionRevenue$3.8B20252 pts
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2025$3.8Bview →Needs attention
2025$200Mview →
Failed source checkTotal Funding Raised$26BJan 20262 pts
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Jan 2026$26Bview →Failed source check
Dec 2024$12Bview →
Failed source checkValuation$230BJan 20263 pts
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Jan 2026$230Bview →Failed source check
Nov 2025$80Bview →
Dec 2024$50Bview →

Products & Usage

Needs attentionBenchmark Score1,40220252 pts
Needs attentionCumulative Downloads100 million2025view →
Needs attentionModel Parameters2.7 trillion2025view →
Needs attentionUser Count64 millionDec 2025view →

Organization

Founded DateJul 2023view →
HeadquartersPalo Alto, CAview →

People

Founded ByElon Muskview →

Background

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)view →

General

Websitehttps://x.aiview →

Board Seats

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MemberRoleAppointedSourceNotesSource check
Dan HendrycksAdvisor2023fortune.comAdvisor to xAI; director of the Center for AI Safety. Recruited by Musk as advisor. Confirmed in Fortune Nov 2023 article.Not checked
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