Overview
xAI is the Artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, developer of the Grok large language model family. In physical AI, xAI's Grok serves as the conversational and reasoning layer of Tesla's Optimus humanoid, paired with Tesla's FSD-derived neural networks in a dual-brain architecture. The same Grok-plus-Tesla-compute pattern underpins the "Digital Optimus" software-agent initiative announced in 2026. Tesla announced a 2 billion dollar investment in xAI in 2026, formalizing the technology integration between Musk's AI and robotics ventures.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Products
Tesla Optimus
Tesla investment
Grok in Tesla vehicles
Colossus GPUs (Musk-stated, Sep 2026)
GB300 ramp (Musk-stated, Sep 2026)
Colossus II battery (company-stated, Sep 2026)
Mid-South commitments (company-stated, Sep 2026)
Turbine removal (company-stated)
Data & sources
Press releases
3
News coverage
8
Web sources
6
17 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company xAI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Robots powered by xAI
xAI’s brains run inside 1 registry-tracked model across 1 maker, with 3 verified deployments on the map.
Brains
- Grok (xAI)foundation model1
Makers running these brains
Powered models
- 3 deployments
Verified deployments
- Tesla Optimusat South Korea · East Asia2025-06-01
- 2025-01-01
- Tesla Optimusat Fremont · West Coast2024-09-01
Relationships
Founders (1)
Former / Previously (1)
- Elon Musk founderreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for xAI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
xAI on the data-center map
Every verified data center xAI operates that has a mapped coordinate (4 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
xAI data centers (4)
- xAI ColossusMemphis · partially energized
- xAI Colossus 2 Data CenterSouthaven · partially energized
- xAI Southaven Data Center (MACROHARD)Southaven · announced
- xAI Tulane Road Site (Second Memphis Data Center)Memphis · planned
AI data centers xAI operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Brains developed (1)
- Grok (xAI)foundation-model · pilot
Recent coverage
xAI in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating
Every company xAI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- xai x oraclewithOracle7technology—operating
- xai x nvidiawithNVIDIA1114technology—inferred
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdMay 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (17)
- https://x.ai/
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tesla-invested-2b-in-elon-musks-xai/
- https://fortune.com/2026/01/28/tesla-earnings-2-billion-xai-investment-elon-musk-ends-model-s-model-x-optimus/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/elon-musk-says-xai-has-acquired-x-in-deal-that-values-social-media-site-at-33-billion.html
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-28/musk-says-that-his-xai-startup-has-acquired-x-for-33-billion
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/elon-musk-xai-raises-10-billion-in-debt-and-equity.html
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/elon-musks-xai-launches-grok-4-alongside-a-300-monthly-subscription/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/xai-says-it-has-fixed-grok-4s-problematic-responses/
- https://x.ai/colossus
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/groks-ai-companions-drove-downloads-but-its-latest-model-is-the-one-making-money/
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-xai-merger-talks-ipo-reuters/
- https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2103329761690865846 · 2026-09-24
- https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2103332409789776197 · 2026-09-24
- https://www.spacex.com/Mid-South · 2026-09-25
- https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2103515250737758442 · 2026-09-25
- https://www.spacex.com/assets/sites-pages/assets/Memphis-Local-Impact-Report.pdf · 2026-09-25
- https://www.spacex.com/assets/sites-pages/assets/Southaven-Local-Impact-Report-web.pdf · 2026-09-25
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 17 sources (3 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 6
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 5
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 3
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 3
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for xAI.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning xAI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Exail unveils Neptis
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Exail Introduces Neptis Uncrewed Maritime Surveillance System
Exail introduced its Neptis uncrewed maritime surveillance system during the Euronaval press tour. Bringing together Oryx-family uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), mission-specific…
SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they'd back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation,…
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今日热点导览 SpaceXAI官宣更名SpaceXSI OpenAI将在欧盟为ChatGPT和Codex文本输出添加隐形水印 2026年诺贝尔化学奖、物理学奖揭晓 7-11便利店退出印度 苹果一号电脑或拍出80万美元 TOP 3 大新闻 中国航协回应东航空姐跪地道歉事件…
A $10 Domain Just Sold to Elon Musk for $174,000 After SpaceXAI’s Surprise Rebrand
SpaceXSI.com sold for $174,000 A domain registered for roughly $10 a little more than a year ago has reportedly sold for $174,000 after Elon Musk announced plans to rename…
A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general…
Dots, Muse, Grokbot: Was können die neuen KI-Agenten wirklich?
Das Chatfenster hat bald ausgedient: Mit Dots hat OpenAI soeben seine Antwort auf Metas Muse und xAIs Grok Bots vorgestellt, einen KI-Agenten, der rund um die Uhr auf einem…
Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ AI Rebrand Has Everyone Shopping for Slovenia’s .SI Domain
Elon Musk says he will rename the just renamed SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to align with the White House directive.
Musk: SpaceXAI Will Be Renamed SpaceXSI, Dropping 'AI'
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Windows malware uses Grok AI to help stay hidden, researchers say
x47.c Windows malware uses xAI's Grok to maintain persistence on infected PCs while stealing passwords, browser cookies and API keys from victims.
TSMC in Talks to Join Musk’s Texas Terafab Project
Elon Musk confirmed that TSMC and his companies are discussing a possible chipmaking partnership in Texas. The project could make TSMC a supplier to Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. Carmen…
Elon Musk to rename SpaceXAI as SpaceXSI
Following Donald Trump's suggestion that "artificial intelligence" should be called "supreme intelligence," or SI for short, Elon Musk is renaming one of his companies.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/xai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/xai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/d7bc30aa-e892-42f7-a58a-e172534fec48
- Revision history: /companies/xai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
This chip runs AI on light, not electricity. German deeptech Q.ANT ran a diffusion model and an xLSTM on its second-gen photonic chip at ISC 2026, targeting up
How does a robot finish drywall faster than a full crew? Canvas's AI 1200CX sprays and sands to a Level 4/5 finish, cutting schedules up to 60% and capturing 9
An AI drone just flew a live Army mission solo. Northrop's Lumberjack flew autonomously in a 101st Airborne test, tied into the Palantir-built Maven Smart Syst
Can a drone be built to track another drone on its own? VisionWave unveiled D-FLY at Eurosatory 2026, an autonomous interceptor inside its STRATUM battlefield-
How does a self-driving mining truck keep working where there's no network? Caterpillar and Nvidia are putting digital twins and edge computing onto mining mac
41 driverless trucks now haul Doritos with no driver. PepsiCo and Gatik now run 41 fully driverless box trucks across Texas, Arizona and Arkansas, delivering t
xAI turns one photo into a clip with sound. Grok Imagine 1.5 makes 720p clips with synced audio from a single image, now ranked #1 on the Image-to-Video Arena.
Why is LG sending its home robot to the factory before the living room? LG is deploying 100 CLOi D humanoids this month at a Seoul 'robot data factory,' scalin
Humanoid robots go to work on a vertical farm. Agroz and UBTECH are deploying the Walker S humanoid into AI-run vertical farms in Malaysia, with rollout slated
A hospital robot just got a 10x smarter brain. Diligent's Moxi 2.0 runs on NVIDIA IGX Thor with ~10x compute to navigate busy corridors. It already does 1.25M+
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place xAI against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Meaningful press and media coverage across the period. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 12, 2026
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