Elon Musk Secures $10B for XAI as Trump Feud Escalates – Who Wins the Tech Cold War?
Elon Musk just pulled off a $10 billion power move for XAI—while trading verbal grenades with Donald Trump. The tech mogul's war chest just got nuclear, but Washington's watching.
Money talks, A.I. walks
That $10B injection isn't just VC play money—it's Musk loading the chamber for the next phase of the A.I. arms race. Meanwhile, D.C. scrambles to keep up while shorting Tesla stock.
Bonus jab: Wall Street's already pricing in the 'Musk Premium'—that magical 30% markup when billionaires play with other people's retirement funds.
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Elon Musk strengthens his play with xAI: $10 billion for Grok and Colossus
xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, has just. This windfall will serve toin Memphis and to. 5 billion comes from secured loans, 5 billion from strategic investments, according to Morgan Stanley.
Objective:. Musk confirmed it: ” xAI has already installed 200,000 GPUs and plans to reach 1 million“. And to achieve this,, which he pays for upfront, bypassing subsidies.
Since March, Grok has been integrated into the X platform. The AI aims to be ” maximally truth-seeking and anti-woke“. Musk intends to use it as anin an increasingly polarized America. The integration with X is not just technical: it allowswithout filters.
AI, public debt, and digital insults: the clash between two oversized egos
Donald TRUMP fired off on Truth Social: ” Elon may be receiving more subsidies than any human in history“… A frontal attack to which Musk responded bluntly: ” I’m literally telling you CUT IT ALL OFF. Now“.
But behind the punchlines, the substance is heavy. Trump’sproposes. Musk called this bill a ” disgusting abomination“. He threatens toas soon as it is adopted:
Our country needs an alternative to the single Democratic-Republican party.
The tension is rising: Elon Musk promises to. ” They will lose their primaries, even if it is the last thing I do on Earth“, he hammered. This is more than a clash: it is a, powered by billions and tweets.
Why Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are reshaping the political battleground
This is no longer just a technological battle. It’s, and Elon Musk intends to use it to. He is also investing in: $2 billion to improve Colossus, with liquid cooling systems and water recycling (source: @ns123abc, X.com). AI is becoming his armed wing.
Meanwhile,: exemption for transactions under $300, capped at $5,000 per year. The measure aims to attract Web3 players, a potential electorate for Musk. A strategy parallel to his anti-establishment crusade.
Key figures to remember:
- $10 billion raised by xAI, of which $5 billion is strategic equity;
- Objective: 1 million GPUs deployed by 2027;
- $18 billion investments in data centers over 2 years;
- xAI has quadrupled its workforce since Series C;
- OpenAI is valued at $300 billion, xAI now at $80 billion.
While some are pessimistic facing the debt, others like Musk turn criticism into leverage. Andwhispering into the ears of 220 million followers on X.
Attacked from all sides, Elon Musk has become a figure that divides as much as it fascinates. Recently, the creator of Squid Game even compared the VIPs of his series to the businessman: powerful, isolated, playing games whose rules they dictate… before becoming prisoners themselves. The real world sometimes feels like dystopian fiction.
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