{"id":271062,"date":"2026-02-03T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271062\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:12:11","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-acquires-elon-musks-xai-with-combined-ipo-valuation-seen-at-1-25-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/271062\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX acquires Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI, with combined IPO valuation seen at $1.25 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, has acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates#xai-joins-spacex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote Elon Musk<\/a>, announcing the merger. &#8220;Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,&#8221; Musk continued. &#8220;To harness even a millionth of our Sun\u2019s energy would require over a million times more energy than our civilization currently uses!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The combined company is expected to go public at a valuation of $1.25 trillion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-02-02\/elon-musk-s-spacex-said-to-combine-with-xai-ahead-of-mega-ipo?srnd=homepage-americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported Bloomberg<\/a>, noting xAI recently raised money at a $230 billion valuation and SpaceX at about an $800 billion valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, has acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-271062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}