{"id":50307,"date":"2025-09-29T15:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50307\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:40:21","slug":"ai-investments-blue-owl-xai-deals-solidify-qias-500-billion-us-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/50307\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Investments: Blue Owl, xAI Deals Solidify QIA\u2019s $500 Billion US Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The $524 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/908865Z:QD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Qatar Investment Authority<\/a> is stepping up its investments in the US with high-profile commitments to artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, underscoring how Doha is keeping its economic priorities separate from geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Just this month, the sovereign wealth fund announced a data center venture with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/OWL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Blue Owl Capital Inc.<\/a>, committing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-25\/ai-boom-blue-owl-and-qatar-s-qia-set-up-3-billion-data-center-venture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">$1 billion in new equity<\/a>. That came after it joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1892140D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Anthropic<\/a>\u2019s $13 billion funding round, and participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-19\/musk-s-xai-raises-10-billion-at-200-billion-valuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">xAI\u2019s $10 billion raise<\/a> valuing it at $200 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $524 billion Qatar Investment Authority is stepping up its investments in the US with high-profile commitments to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,27463,363,364,43629,19983,7903,1702,5107,111,139,69,5567,7917,145,3912],"class_list":["post-50307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alternative-investments","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-blue-owl-capital-inc","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-doha","tag-infrastructure","tag-middle-east","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-private-equity","tag-qatar","tag-technology","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}