Musk has tied the two ventures together closely since launching xAI in the summer of 2023, saying that its access to the vast trove of data from Twitter / X would give it a major

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group xAI has purchased social media platform X for $45bn, as the billionaire entrepreneur brings together two of his flagship businesses.

Musk bought Twitter Inc. in 2022 for about $44 billion and renamed it to X shortly thereafter. He launched xAI the following year to compete with OpenAI in the large language model market. The AI startup went on to raise more than $12 billion in funding over multiple rounds.