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SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)

Develops Grok and operates AI infrastructure; xAI was acquired by SpaceX in 2026.

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What it does

Develops Grok and operates AI infrastructure; xAI was acquired by SpaceX in 2026.

Why it matters

Its Grok models and Colossus supercomputer represent one of the largest single-company AI compute buildouts, now combined with SpaceX's balance sheet and infrastructure ambitions.

How it makes money

Develops and sells access to Grok AI models and related products; now part of SpaceX's combined business.

Geography

United States

AI stack position

Foundation models and AI laboratories. The organizations actually building the AI models themselves, like the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. This is the most crowded, fastest-moving layer of the AI economy right now.

Connections (23)

Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.

Current relationships (15)

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) distributes Grok models through Snowflake
Publishes throughCurrent
Snowflake said on September 3, 2026 that Grok 4.6 is in public preview on Snowflake Cortex AI, available through Cortex AI Functions and Cortex Inference.

Source: 2026-09-03 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Public preview, not general availability. The post does not disclose commercial terms, where inference runs, customer volumes, or how long the arrangement lasts.

Grok 4.6 Now Available on Snowflake Cortex AI ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) distributes Grok models through Microsoft
Publishes throughCurrent
Microsoft's developer documentation, last updated August 26, 2026, lists eight SpaceXAI Grok models including grok-4.6 as Foundry Models sold by Azure and hosted on Microsoft's infrastructure.

Source: 2026-08-26 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: A product document. It does not disclose the revenue split between Microsoft and SpaceXAI, usage volumes, the length of the agreement, or whether Microsoft trains or fine-tunes anything. Several of the listed models are marked preview.

Deploy and use Grok models in Microsoft Foundry ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) distributes Grok models through Amazon Web Services
Publishes throughCurrent
SpaceXAI announced on August 19, 2026 that Grok 4.6 is available to developers in supported AWS Regions through Amazon Bedrock at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.

Source: 2026-08-19 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The post lists availability and list pricing only. It does not disclose the commercial split with AWS, which regions are covered, usage volumes, or whether SpaceXAI buys any compute from AWS in return.

Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) co-develops models with Cursor
Co-develops withCurrent
Cursor said its work with SpaceXAI began as an April 2026 partnership to accelerate model training and that Grok 4.6 gives an early look at what the two teams can now build together.

Source: 2026-08-14 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Cursor does not say which model weights, data or training runs were shared, how the work is split, or whether any jointly trained model has shipped to customers. It does not establish that Cursor has stopped using models from other suppliers.

Cursor is now a part of SpaceX ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) distributes Grok models through Databricks
Publishes throughCurrent
SpaceXAI said on June 18, 2026 that Grok models are natively available on Databricks Agent Bricks, Databricks' developer agent platform.

Source: 2026-06-18 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The post does not name which Grok versions are offered, disclose commercial terms or revenue sharing, or establish how many Databricks customers use Grok. It does not show that Databricks provides compute to SpaceXAI.

Grok on Databricks ↗
NVIDIA supplies GPUs to SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
SuppliesCurrent
SpaceXAI said Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including H100, H200 and GB200 accelerators.

Source: 2026-05-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: A count published by the operator, not independently audited. Does not establish price, delivery dates, exclusivity, or the site's location -- the cited page does not name Memphis. Does not establish how many of the GPUs are in service at any given time.

New Compute Partnership with Anthropic ↗
Tesla invested in SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Invested inCurrent
Tesla's amended 2025 annual report disclosed that its roughly $2 billion purchase of xAI Series E preferred stock closed and later converted into SpaceX Class A common stock representing less than 1% of SpaceX.

Source: 2026-05-01 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating

Limits: This is trade reporting of a regulatory filing rather than the filing itself. It does not establish the current market value of the stake, any lock-up terms, or that Tesla has made or committed to further investment.

Tesla (TSLA) reveals $573M web of transactions between Elon Musk's companies ↗
Tesla supplies battery storage to SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
SuppliesCurrent
Tesla's amended 2025 annual report disclosed $430.1 million of revenue from xAI, primarily from selling Megapack energy storage used to power xAI's data center operations, plus a further $78.1 million recognized through February 2026.

Source: 2026-05-01 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating

Limits: This is trade reporting of a regulatory filing. It does not establish how many Megapack units were delivered, which sites they were installed at, unit pricing, or that the supply arrangement continues beyond the periods disclosed.

Tesla (TSLA) reveals $573M web of transactions between Elon Musk's companies ↗
SpaceX acquired SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
AcquiredCurrent
SpaceXAI's own newsroom stated on February 2, 2026 that SpaceX had acquired xAI, which now operates under the SpaceXAI name.

Source: 2026-02-02 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The post is two sentences long. It does not state the price, the exchange ratio, the legal structure of the combination, or what share of the combined company former xAI holders received. SpaceX's S-1 separately describes the transaction as between entities under common control, which is an accounting characterization, not a valuation.

xAI joins SpaceX ↗
NVIDIA invested in SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Invested inCurrent
xAI named NVIDIA as a strategic investor in its $20 billion Series E announced on January 6, 2026.

Source: 2026-01-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The announcement does not state how much NVIDIA put in, what ownership percentage it received, or what security it bought. It also does not say whether the position survived the February 2026 SpaceX combination in the same form.

Series E ↗
Cisco Systems invested in SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Invested inCurrent
xAI named Cisco Investments as a strategic investor in its $20 billion Series E announced on January 6, 2026.

Source: 2026-01-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: No amount, ownership percentage or security type is disclosed. The announcement does not establish that Cisco supplies networking equipment to SpaceXAI, only that its venture arm took part in the round.

Series E ↗
Oracle provides computing capacity to SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Provides computing capacity toCurrent
xAI (now SpaceXAI) partnered with Oracle to train and run inferencing for its Grok models using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Generative AI service and OCI Compute instances, with zero-data-retention endpoints for inference.

Source: 2025-06-17 · reviewed 2026-09-22

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Does not establish exclusivity or volumes; xAI/SpaceXAI also operates its own Colossus supercomputer and other infrastructure outside Oracle.

xAI's Grok Models are Now on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) uses GPUs from NVIDIA
Uses technology fromCurrent
Colossus identifies NVIDIA H100 hardware in its AI cluster.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-17

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Page contains inconsistent GPU counts. No count is carried into the map.

Colossus infrastructure page ↗
Supermicro built the liquid-cooled GPU server racks used in xAI's Colossus supercomputer SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Manufactures forCurrent
Supermicro designed and supplied the liquid-cooled 4U GPU server racks (each pairing eight 8-GPU NVIDIA H100 servers) that formed the building blocks of xAI's roughly 100,000-GPU Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, as documented in Supermicro's own case study.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Completed initial buildout; Supermicro-branded case study still published

Limits: Supermicro's case study describes the technical infrastructure it built for Colossus; it does not disclose contract value, exclusivity, or whether Supermicro continues to supply subsequent Colossus expansions.

xAI Colossus | Supermicro ↗
Tesla uses AI models from SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Uses technology fromCurrent
Tesla's owner support page describes Grok as an AI companion built by SpaceXAI and available in vehicles with an AMD processor running software 2025.26 or later.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: The support page carries no publication date, so the date of this evidence cannot be fixed. It describes an in-car feature in beta and does not establish any payment between Tesla and SpaceXAI, the number of vehicles using Grok, or that Grok is used in Tesla's driving software.

Grok | Tesla Support ↗

Dated or announced (5)

MGX anchored a funding round in SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Invested inDated / announced
MGX is named as an anchor investor, alongside the Qatar Investment Authority, in xAI's upsized $20 billion Series E round (January 2026).

Source: 2026-01-06 · reviewed 2026-09-21

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Completed funding round, January 2026

Limits: xAI's announcement does not disclose individual investors' specific check sizes.

xAI raises $20B Series E ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) announced a partnership with Palantir Technologies
Partners withDated / announced
Reuters reported on May 6, 2025 that xAI joined Palantir and TWG Global in a partnership to sell AI tools to financial services and insurance firms, contributing its Grok models and Colossus supercomputer.

Source: 2025-05-06 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: An announcement from 2025, before the SpaceX combination. It does not establish that any customer was signed, any revenue was earned, or that the arrangement is still active under SpaceXAI.

Musk's xAI joins TWG Global, Palantir for AI push in financial sector ↗
Black Forest Labs formerly supplied image-generation technology to SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
SuppliesDated / announced
Black Forest Labs' FLUX models originally powered image generation in xAI's Grok chatbot beginning in 2024, but reporting in April 2025 indicated xAI was no longer working with Black Forest Labs.

Source: 2025-04-03 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Ended (per reporting)

Limits: Does not establish the exact end date, the reason for the change, or whether any technology relationship continues in reduced form; neither company issued a detailed public statement confirming the reporting.

Elon Musk's xAI no longer working with German startup Black Forest Labs ↗
BlackRock welcomed as a partner to the AI Infrastructure Partnership SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
Partners withDated / announced
xAI joined the AI Infrastructure Partnership (led by BlackRock, GIP, Microsoft and MGX) as a member in March 2025.

Source: 2025-03-19 · reviewed 2026-09-21

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Joined as member, March 2025

Limits: The announcement does not describe xAI as a capital investor in the partnership.

BlackRock, GIP, Microsoft and MGX Welcome NVIDIA and xAI to AIP ↗
Dell Technologies in advanced talks to supply AI servers to SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)
SuppliesDated / announced
Dell was reported to be in advanced talks on a deal worth more than $5 billion to supply xAI with servers built on Nvidia GB200 chips for its Colossus supercomputer buildout.

Source: 2025-02-14 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported as advanced talks, not a finalized/confirmed contract, as of the report

Limits: Based on Bloomberg sourcing describing the deal as still being negotiated; does not confirm final contract signing, delivered volume, or final dollar value.

Musk's xAI considering second data center, $5bn Dell server deal ↗

Comparisons (3)

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) competes with OpenAI
Competes withComparison only
Network World reported on July 7, 2026 that SpaceXAI is positioning Grok and its Colossus infrastructure against established AI providers including OpenAI.

Source: 2026-07-07 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap

Limits: A market-overlap comparison drawn from trade analysis, not from either company. It does not measure relative market share, revenue, model quality or customer switching, and neither party has stated that it competes with the other.

SpaceXAI wants to compete on AI infrastructure, not just AI models ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) competes with Anthropic
Competes withComparison only
Network World reported on July 7, 2026 that SpaceXAI's frontier-model and enterprise AI ambitions put it alongside established providers including Anthropic, even as Anthropic rents compute from SpaceX.

Source: 2026-07-07 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap

Limits: Market overlap only. The two also have a large commercial supply relationship, which this row does not describe. It does not measure share, revenue or customer switching between them.

SpaceXAI wants to compete on AI infrastructure, not just AI models ↗
SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) competes with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Competes withComparison only
Network World reported on July 7, 2026 that SpaceXAI is building a vertically integrated AI stack aimed at the same enterprise market served by established providers including Google.

Source: 2026-07-07 · reviewed 2026-09-24

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Product/market overlap

Limits: Market overlap only, drawn from trade analysis. Google is simultaneously one of SpaceX's largest compute customers, which this row does not describe, and no share or revenue comparison is made.

SpaceXAI wants to compete on AI infrastructure, not just AI models ↗
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xAI joins SpaceX ↗
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