xAI
Elon Musk's AI company, noted for its rapid buildout of compute infrastructure (Colossus project) and being a major competitor to OpenAI.
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Summary
xAI, officially X.AI Corp., is an American public-benefit corporation founded by Elon Musk in March 2023, operating in the fields of artificial intelligence, social media, and technology. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, xAI's notable achievement includes its AI model, Grok 4, which is trained on the Colossus supercomputer and has reportedly surpassed competitors like OpenAI and Google's Gemini in benchmarks. This success is often contextualized by "The Bitter Lesson," an essay by Rich Sutton that highlights the power of scalable computation over human-labeled data, a principle also reflected in Tesla's FSD and the use of synthetic data for training Large Language Models. In a significant move, xAI acquired its sister company X Corp. (formerly Twitter) in March 2025, leading to the combination of both entities into X.AI Holdings Corp.
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Type
American public-benefit corporation
Industry
Artificial intelligence, Social media, Technology
Key Product
Grok (specifically Grok 4)
Stated Goal
To understand the true nature of the universe; to solve real problems
Headquarters
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Official Name
X.AI Corp.
Valuation (xAI)
$80 billion (as of 2025-03-28)
Training Supercomputer
Colossus
Valuation (X Corp. at acquisition)
$33 billion (all-stock transaction), $45 billion (full valuation including $12 billion debt) (as of 2025-03-28)
Timeline
- Founded by Elon Musk. (Source: Wikidata, Wikipedia, Web Search)
2023-03-09
- Officially launched to the public. (Source: Web Search)
2023-07
- Elon Musk announced that xAI acquired sister company X Corp. (formerly Twitter) in an all-stock transaction, valued at $33 billion for X and $80 billion for xAI. Both companies were combined into a single entity called X.AI Holdings Corp. (Source: Web Search)
2025-03-28
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X.AI Corp., doing business as xAI, is an American public-benefit corporation working in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), social media and technology. It was founded by Elon Musk in March 2023.
Web Search Results
- XAI: Explainable Artificial Intelligence - DARPA
XAI is one of a handful of current DARPA programs expected to enable “third-wave AI systems”, where machines understand the context and environment in which they operate, and over time build underlying explanatory models that allow them to characterize real world phenomena. [...] The Explainable AI (XAI) program aims to create a suite of machine learning techniques that: Produce more explainable models, while maintaining a high level of learning performance (prediction accuracy); and Enable human users to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage the emerging generation of artificially intelligent partners. [...] The XAI program is focused on the development of multiple systems by addressing challenge problems in two areas: (1) machine learning problems to classify events of interest in heterogeneous, multimedia data; and (2) machine learning problems to construct decision policies for an autonomous system to perform a variety of simulated missions. These two challenge problem areas were chosen to represent the intersection of two important machine learning approaches (classification and reinforcement
- xAI (company) - Wikipedia
X.AI Corp., doing business asxAI, is an American public-benefit corporation( working in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), social media and technology.( It was founded by Elon Musk in March 2023. History ------- [edit&action=edit§ion=1 "Edit section: History")] ### Financial history [edit&action=edit§ion=2 "Edit section: Financial history")] [...] In other projects Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial Intelligence-focused startup X.AI Corp.Image 4 Trade namexAI Company typePrivate IndustryArtificial intelligence Social media Technology Founded March 9, 2023; 2 years ago(2023-03-09)( FounderElon Musk HeadquartersSan Francisco Bay Area, California , [...] On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that xAI acquired sister company X Corp., the developer of the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform, which was previously acquired by Musk in October 2022. The deal, an all-stock transaction, valued X at $33 billion, with a full valuation of $45 billion when factoring in $12 billion in debt. Meanwhile, xAI itself was valued at $80 billion. Both companies were combined into a single entity called X.AI Holdings Corp.(
- What Is Explainable AI (XAI)? - Palo Alto Networks
### Explainable AI At-a-Glance ## Explainable AI (XAI) Defined Explainable AI (XAI) represents a paradigm shift in the field of artificial intelligence, challenging the notion that advanced AI systems must inherently be black boxes. XAI’s potential to fundamentally reshape the relationship between humans and AI systems sets it apart. Explainable AI, at its core, seeks to bridge the gap between the complexity of modern machine learning models and the human need for understanding and trust. [...] In this context, the development of explainable AI becomes both more crucial and more challenging. XAI aims to make AI systems transparent and interpretable, allowing users to understand how these systems arrive at their decisions or predictions. But the complexity that necessitates XAI also impedes its implementation. [...] One original perspective on explainable AI is that it serves as a form of "cognitive translation" between machine and human intelligence. Just as we use language translation to communicate across cultural barriers, XAI acts as an interpreter, translating the intricate patterns and decision processes of AI into forms that align with human cognitive frameworks. This translation is bidirectional — not only does it allow humans to understand AI decisions, but it also enables AI systems to explain
- Elon Musk sells X to xAI: What is xAI? What does it do? Who owns ...
Headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area in California, xAI ‘s establishment marked Elon Musk’s re-entry into the AI space after OpenAI. Officially launched in July 2023, xAI started with a team of 12 people including Elon Musk, some of whom boast experience with GPT developments and Google DeepMind. Igor Babuschkin, who formerly worked with Google's DeepMind unit, was recruited by Musk to be Chief Engineer. On its website, xAI says its goal is to solve “real problems”. [...] “The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge,” Musk added. ## What is xAI, the company that bought X? xAI is a US-based public-benefit corporation that functions in the realm of artificial intelligence. Founded by Elon Musk in March 2023, the company's stated goal is “to understand the true nature of the universe”.
- Recent Applications of Explainable AI (XAI): A Systematic Literature ...
In the field of education, XAI has been applied to various areas such as the early prediction of student performance , predicting dropout rates in engineering faculties , forecasting alumni income , and analyzing student agency . In psychology, XAI was used for classifying psychological traits from digital footprints ; in social care, for child welfare screening ; and in the laws, for detecting reasons behind a judge’s decision-making process , predicting withdrawal from the legal process in [...] In the finance sector, XAI techniques have been employed to enhance various decision-making processes. Research has focused on decision-making in banking and finance sector applications , asset pricing , and predicting credit card fraud . Studies have also aimed at predicting decisions to approve or reject loans and addressing a range of credit-related problems, including fraud detection, risk assessment, investment decisions, algorithmic trading, and other financial decision-making processes [...] cases of violence towards women in intimate relationships , and inter partes institution outcomes predictions . In natural language processing, XAI was used for explaining sentence embedding , question classification , questions answering , sarcasm detection in dialogues , identifying emotions from speech , assessment of familiarity ratings for domain concepts , and detecting AI-generated text .
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