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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jasper Jolly

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6bn in bid to take on OpenAI

Elon Musk and a mobile showing the logo of xAI
Elon Musk’s xAI is only a year old, but it has rapidly built its own large language model. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has closed a $6bn (£4.7bn) investment round that will make it among the best-funded challengers to OpenAI.

The startup is only a year old, but it has rapidly built its own large language model (LLM), the technology underpinning many of the recent advances in generative artificial intelligence capable of creating human-like text, pictures, video, and voices.

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