{"id":989448,"date":"2026-02-03T07:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989448"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:39:58","slug":"elon-musk-merges-xai-with-spacex-combined-valuation-pegged-at-1-25-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/elon-musk-merges-xai-with-spacex-combined-valuation-pegged-at-1-25-trillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk merges xAI with SpaceX; combined valuation pegged at $1.25 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI, combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot in a move aimed at unifying Musk&#8217;s AI and space ambitions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This marks not just the \u200cnext chapter, but \u200cthe next book in SpaceX and xAI&#8217;s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light \u200cof consciousness to the stars!&#8221; Musk said. The deal, first reported by Reuters last Thursday, represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the technology sector yet, combining a space-and-defense contractor with a fast-growing AI developer whose costs are largely driven by chips, data centers and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said on Monday that SpaceX has acquired his artificial-intelligence startup xAI, combining the rocket-and-satellite company with the maker of the Grok chatbot in a move aimed at unifying Musk&#8217;s AI and space ambitions. &#8220;This marks not just the \u200cnext chapter, but \u200cthe next book in SpaceX and xAI&#8217;s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light \u200cof consciousness to the stars!&#8221; Musk said. The deal, first reported by Reuters last Thursday, represents one of the most ambitious tie-ups in the technology sector yet, combining a space-and-defense contractor with a fast-growing AI [&hellip;]<\/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-989448","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\/989448","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=989448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}