IA: Elon Musk Raises $10 Billion For XAI Amid Battle With Trump
After a truce as fleeting as a deleted tweet, the Trump-Musk duel has resumed with great fanfare. The American president, who recently expressed admiration for the head of Tesla and SpaceX, has changed his tune. Elon Musk, for his part, is stepping up his game. Historic fundraising for xAI, political threats, creation of a party, everything is on the table. Between provocations on X and sensational announcements, the war of words is now also a war of influence. And the battlefield extends far beyond tech.
Elon Musk strengthens his play with xAI: $10 billion for Grok and Colossus
xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, has just raised 10 billion dollars. This windfall will serve to strengthen its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis and to accelerate progress on its chatbot Grok. 5 billion comes from secured loans, 5 billion from strategic investments, according to Morgan Stanley .
Objective: to build one of the most powerful data centers in the world. Musk confirmed it: ” xAI has already installed 200,000 GPUs and plans to reach 1 million“. And to achieve this, he’s betting on Nvidia and AMD, which he pays for upfront, bypassing subsidies.
Since March, Grok has been integrated into the X platform. The AI aims to be ” maximally truth-seeking and anti-woke“. Musk intends to use it as an ideological banner in an increasingly polarized America. The integration with X is not just technical: it allows Grok’s responses to be broadcast directly to the general public without filters.
AI, public debt, and digital insults: the clash between two oversized egos
Donald Trump fired off on Truth Social : ” Elon may be receiving more subsidies than any human in history“… A frontal attack to which Musk responded bluntly: ” I’m literally telling you CUT IT ALL OFF. Now“.
But behind the punchlines , the substance is heavy. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” proposes massive tax cuts and health care cuts. Musk called this bill a ” disgusting abomination“ . He threatens to found the America Party as soon as it is adopted:
Our country needs an alternative to the single Democratic-Republican party.
The tension is rising: Elon Musk promises to support opponents to Republicans backing the bill. ” They will lose their primaries, even if it is the last thing I do on Earth“, he hammered. This is more than a clash: it is a political declaration of war, powered by billions and tweets.
Why Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are reshaping the political battleground
This is no longer just a technological battle. It’s an ideological showdown, and Elon Musk intends to use it to reshape the political landscape. He is also investing in green infrastructure: $2 billion to improve Colossus, with liquid cooling systems and water recycling (source: @ns123abc, X.com). AI is becoming his armed wing.
Meanwhile, Cynthia Lummis proposes crypto tax relief: exemption for transactions under $300, capped at $5,000 per year. The measure aims to attract Web3 players, a potential electorate for Musk. A strategy parallel to his anti-establishment crusade.
Key figures to remember:
- $10 billion raised by xAI, of which $5 billion is strategic equity;
- Objective: 1 million GPUs deployed by 2027;
- $18 billion investments in data centers over 2 years;
- xAI has quadrupled its workforce since Series C;
- OpenAI is valued at $300 billion, xAI now at $80 billion.
While some are pessimistic facing the debt, others like Musk turn criticism into leverage. And Grok becomes the weapon whispering into the ears of 220 million followers on X.
Attacked from all sides, Elon Musk has become a figure that divides as much as it fascinates. Recently, the creator of Squid Game even compared the VIPs of his series to the businessman : powerful, isolated, playing games whose rules they dictate… before becoming prisoners themselves. The real world sometimes feels like dystopian fiction.
