{"id":988747,"date":"2026-01-30T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988747"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:40:20","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-in-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-of-planned-ipo-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/elon-musks-spacex-in-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-of-planned-ipo-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX in merger talks with xAI ahead of planned IPO, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster public offering planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk&#8217;s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI \u2060chatbot under one roof, according to a person briefed on the matter and two recent company filings seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The plan, which Reuters is reporting exclusively, would give fresh momentum to SpaceX&#8217;s effort to launch data centers into orbit as Musk battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech giants like Google, Meta and OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster public offering planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk&#8217;s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI \u2060chatbot under one roof, according to a person briefed on the matter and two recent company filings seen by Reuters. The plan, which Reuters is reporting exclusively, would give fresh momentum to SpaceX&#8217;s effort to launch data centers into orbit as Musk battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech giants like Google, Meta and OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988747","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}