AI Names · Frontier labs & chatbots
xAI
Private
xAI is Elon Musk’s lab. Grok is the model, Colossus is the cluster, and the last standalone round was the mark before the SpaceX combination talk.
- Last reported post-money
- $230B
- As of
- January 2026
- Round
- Series E standalone mark.
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