{"id":984152,"date":"2026-01-08T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984152"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:35:06","slug":"elon-musks-chatgpt-rival-xai-raises-20-billion-in-funding-investors-include-nvidia-which-has-promised-up-to-100-billion-to-sam-altmans-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/elon-musks-chatgpt-rival-xai-raises-20-billion-in-funding-investors-include-nvidia-which-has-promised-up-to-100-billion-to-sam-altmans-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s ChatGPT rival xAI raises $20 billion in funding; investors include Nvidia which has promised up to $100 billion to Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, has raised $20 billion in its latest funding round. One company reportedly investing in xAI is Nvidia. The chipmaking giant\u2019s participation in funding the Musk-owned startup is notable, as the company also maintains a partnership with one of xAI\u2019s biggest rivals, OpenAI. In September 2025, Nvidia committed up to $100 billion to build AI infrastructure for Sam Altmann-led OpenAI, a project that aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing power by late 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to a CNBC report, apart from Nvidia, other investors in xAI\u2019s latest funding round also include Cisco Investments, alongside existing backers such as Fidelity, the Qatar Investment Authority, and Abu Dhabi\u2019s MGX. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, has raised $20 billion in its latest funding round. One company reportedly investing in xAI is Nvidia. The chipmaking giant\u2019s participation in funding the Musk-owned startup is notable, as the company also maintains a partnership with one of xAI\u2019s biggest rivals, OpenAI. In September 2025, Nvidia committed up to $100 billion to build AI infrastructure for Sam Altmann-led OpenAI, a project that aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing power by late 2026. According to a CNBC report, apart from Nvidia, other investors in xAI\u2019s latest funding round also include Cisco Investments, alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}