Elon Musk's XAI Secures $6 Billion In Series C Funding To Expand Colossus Supercomputer, Attracts Investments From Nvidia And BlackRock
Elon Musk's XAI Secures $6 Billion In Series C Funding To Expand Colossus Supercomputer, Attracts Investments From Nvidia And BlackRock
Since its founding in July 2023, xAI has rapidly grown to a reported valuation of $50 billion, positioning itself as a significant competitor to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI announced on Monday it has secured $6 billion in Series C funding from major technology and financial institutions, marking its second major funding round this year.
埃隆·馬斯克的人工智能公司xAI在週一宣佈，它已從主要科技和金融機構獲得了60億的C輪融資，這標誌着今年的第二輪重大融資。
What Happened: The investment includes strategic participation from NVIDIA Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., alongside financial giants BlackRock, Inc. and Morgan Stanley.
事件回顧：此次投資包括英偉達CORP和美國超微公司的戰略參與，還有金融巨頭貝萊德公司和摩根士丹利。
The funding will support xAI's ambitious expansion of its Colossus supercomputer, which currently operates with 100,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs. The company plans to double this capacity to 200,000 GPUs using Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform.
這筆資金將支持xAI雄心勃勃的Colossus超級計算機擴展，目前該計算機使用100,000個英偉達Hopper GPU。公司計劃使用英偉達的Spectrum-X以太網網絡平台將這項能力擴大到200,000個GPU。
Since its founding in July 2023, xAI has rapidly grown to a reported valuation of $50 billion, positioning itself as a significant competitor to OpenAI, which is valued at $157 billion. The company's growth has outpaced other AI startups including Anthropic ($19 billion valuation) and Perplexity ($2.8 billion valuation).
自2023年7月成立以來，xAI迅速成長，估值報告達到500億，成爲OpenAI的主要競爭者，而後者的估值爲1570億。該公司的增長速度超過了其他人工智能初創公司，包括Anthropic（估值190億）和Perplexity（估值28億）。
Why It Matters: The funding announcement coincides with xAI's expansion of its chatbot Grok's availability. Previously exclusive to paying subscribers of X, formerly known as Twitter, Grok is now being tested as a standalone iOS app and will be accessible through Grok.com. The chatbot features real-time web access and generative AI capabilities, including text rewriting and image generation.
爲何這很重要：融資公告恰逢xAI擴展其聊天機器人Grok的可用性。Grok此前僅對X的付費訂閱用戶開放（X之前叫Twitter），現在正在作爲獨立iOS應用進行測試，並將通過Grok.com提供訪問。該聊天機器人具有實時網頁訪問和生成AI能力，包括文本重寫和圖像生成。
Additional investors in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, Sequoia Capital, and several sovereign wealth funds. According to an SEC filing, the minimum investment in this round was $77,593, with nearly 97 investors participating.
該輪融資的其他投資者包括安德烈森·霍洛維茨、富達投資管理及研究公司、王國控股、燈速、紅杉資本和幾家主權財富基金。根據SEC的備案，參與本輪融資的最低投資額爲77,593美元，近97名投資者參與其中。
The funds will support xAI's continued development of advanced AI systems, including Grok 3, which is currently in training.
這些資金將支持xAI繼續開發先進的人工智能系統，包括目前正在訓練中的Grok 3。
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