Elon Musk’s xAI has announced the successful closure of its $6 billion Series C funding round, attracting investments from prominent firms including A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and strategic partners NVIDIA and AMD. This substantial funding milestone follows significant technological advancements since the company’s Series B round in May 2024.

The company has achieved several notable milestones in recent months, with the deployment of Colossus, its advanced AI supercomputer, standing as a cornerstone achievement. Utilizing 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, Colossus became operational in just 122 days, demonstrating unprecedented speed in infrastructure deployment. Plans are underway to double its capacity to 200,000 GPUs.

Technical innovations have extended beyond hardware, with the launch of Grok 2, the company’s sophisticated language model, and the introduction of the xAI API for developer access. The company has also unveiled Aurora, its proprietary image generation model, enhancing Grok’s multimodal capabilities.

Integration with the X platform has expanded Grok’s real-time understanding capabilities, incorporating features such as web search, citations, and image generation. Currently, xAI is developing Grok 3, which promises to be its most advanced model to date.

The new funding will support three primary initiatives: expanding infrastructure capabilities, developing consumer and enterprise products, and accelerating research into advanced technologies. The company maintains its commitment to developing AI systems that prioritize truthfulness, competence, and universal benefit for humanity.

This investment round positions xAI to advance its mission of understanding the universe’s fundamental nature while creating practical applications that can serve billions of users worldwide.