Nevertheless, the deals — and xAI’s developer and consumer-facing products — have driven xAI’s revenue to around $100 million a year. For comparison, Anthropic is reportedly on pace to generate $1 billion in revenue this year, and OpenAI is targeting $4 billion by the end of 2024.

A lot of compute is needed,” Mr. Musk said in a post about the financing, in which BlackRock, Fidelity and Sequoia participated.

Meet the key figures at Elon Musk's xAI, the $50 billion startup behind the chatbot Grok that's taking on ChatGPT.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk’s startup xAI said it had raised US$6 billion (RM27 billion) from investors in its latest funding round, as it battles