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
Founded
Developer of
Physical-AI relationship
Tesla investment
Grok in Tesla vehicles
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
8
Web sources
1
11 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 6 verified deployments on the map.
Brains
- Grok (xAI)foundation model1
Makers running these brains
Powered models
- 6 deployments
Verified deployments
- Tesla Optimusat Giga Texas, Austin, USA · Southwest2026-01-01
- Tesla Optimusat South Korea · East Asia2025-06-01
- 2025-01-01
- Tesla Optimusat Fremont · West Coast2024-09-01
- Tesla Optimusat Austin, Texas, USA (Gigafactory Texas) · Southwest2024-06-01
- Tesla Optimusat Fremont, California, USA · West Coast2024-01-01
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 oraclewithOracle3technology—operating
- xai x nvidiawithNVIDIA1108technology—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 (11)
- 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/
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 11 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 3
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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.
NVIDIA Reveals $21 Billion SpaceX Stake: Signal of Confidence or Circular Financing?
NVIDIA's 13F shows a nearly $21 billion SpaceX stake, its second-largest holding, stemming from an earlier xAI investment and raising circular financing questions as SpaceX buys…
The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban
The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification”…
Want to know how to go from startup to world’s most valuable company? Look at Nvidia’s investments
Nvidia has realised tens of billions of dollars in paper returns from investments in xAI and Cursor. But the real gains have been the business relationships. The post Want to know…
Criminal AI tool Kriminal is mostly just Grok with a jailbreak, ThreatDown finds
ThreatDown said in new research published today that Kriminal, one of the newest and most popular tools in the criminal artificial intelligence market, owns almost nothing it…
XAIUSDT 1D
#XAI is testing the long-term descending resistance trendline along with the Ichimoku Cloud. Keep a close eye on the price action. In case of a solid breakout above these…
Grok CSAM lawsuit expands as more step forward
A federal lawsuit against SpaceXAI alleges the company is profiting from Grok-enabled sex trafficking and negligent product design.
马斯克华人前高管，5亿拿下硅谷豪宅，AI正批量制造富豪？
xAI联创吴宇怀购入硅谷豪宅。
【数智周报】 华为云OfficeClaw升级为OfficeAce；Meta发布轻量化AI模型，单张显卡即可运行；千问办公助理收费；智谱宣布ZCode全面升级
（8月10日~8月15日）面壁智能启动IPO；英伟达研发万亿参数开源模型Nemotron 4；SpaceXAI推出“全天候数字同事”Grok Bot；宇树科技：网上投资者放弃认购8734股
스페이스X, 커서 600억 달러 인수 마무리…커서팀은 그록 맡는다
스페이스X가 AI 코딩 도구 커서 인수를 600억 달러 전액 주식으로 마무리했다. 커서는 SpaceXAI 산하로 들어가 그록 개발에 참여한다. 하루 전엔 운영 에이전트 파이어타이거도 인수했다.
SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities
SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. The company was known as xAI until last month.…
SpaceXAI Joins the AI Agent Game With Grok Bot
SpaceXAI says new AI agents can work alongside each other and even have their own AI manager.
AI Startup River AI Raises $1.1B to Build Personally Trainable AI Agents
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD…
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
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+
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
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: Aug 26, 2026
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