{"id":270952,"date":"2026-01-06T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:19:08","slug":"elon-musk-xai-raises-20-billion-from-nvidia-cisco-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/270952\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk xAI raises $20 billion from Nvidia, Cisco, investors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk attends the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 19, 2025. <\/p>\n

Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters<\/p>\n

Elon Musk’s<\/a> xAI said it raised $20 billion in a funding round, exceeding its prior target of $15 billion. <\/p>\n

CNBC reported in November that a financing would value the artificial intelligence startup at about $230 billion. After an initial report that xAI was raising $15 billion, Musk called the story “False” in a post on\u00a0X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Investors included Nvidia<\/a> and Cisco Investments<\/a> as well as long-time Musk company backers Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and Baron Capital Group. <\/p>\n

Both Nvidia and Cisco work with xAI as vendors and strategic partners.<\/p>\n

AI startups reached sky-high valuations in 2025, raising massive amounts of capital to power seemingly endless demand for their foundational models. In October, OpenAI closed<\/a> a $6.6 billion share sale at a $500 billion valuation, and a month later Anthropic was valued<\/a> at around $350 billion, with capital coming from Microsoft<\/a> and Nvidia. <\/p>\n

Musk’s AI venture now owns and operates his social network X after merging<\/a> with the company, formerly known as Twitter, in March. <\/p>\n

The company faces a new flurry of regulatory probes by authorities in Europe, India and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot generated sexualized images of children and non-consensual intimate images of adults, mostly women. Users shared the images widely on X.<\/p>\n

Musk is centering xAI’s infrastructure buildout in Memphis, Tennessee. The data centers, which use natural gas-burning turbines as a power source, have drawn consternation<\/a> from many nearby residents, as emissions have contributed to air quality problems in the area, according to local researchers.<\/p>\n

Despite its controversies, xAI landed a deal with the\u00a0Department of Defense,\u00a0<\/a>which recently added Grok to its AI agents platform. Grok is also the\u00a0main chatbot<\/a>\u00a0for prediction betting platforms Polymarket and Kalshi.<\/p>\n

WATCH:<\/strong> xAI raises $20 billion<\/a> <\/p>\n

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