xAI
Role in each timeline
- SpaceX Goes Public: From the $350 Billion Tender Offer to the Largest IPO Ever and the Lockups
Musk’s AI company, merged into SpaceX in February 2026 in an all-stock transaction that also brought Grok and X into the public-company story.
- Intel Foundry and 18A: From IDM 2.0 to a Government-Owned Stake
Named as a Terafab participant alongside Intel, SpaceX and Tesla.
- Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face
AI company whose $20 billion Series E listed Nvidia as a strategic investor, without disclosing Nvidia's amount.
xAI across every timeline
Every dated entry that names xAI, from all 3 timelines, newest first.
- Intel joins the Terafab project Announcement
Intel announced it had joined the Terafab project alongside SpaceX, xAI and Tesla. An Intel filing later described Intel as a strategic Terafab partner.
on Intel Foundry and 18A: From IDM 2.0 to a Government-Owned Stake - SpaceX absorbs xAI, Grok and X in an all-stock deal valuing the combination at $1.25 trillion Announcement
Four months before listing, Musk folded his AI company xAI, with the Grok models and the X social network, into SpaceX in what CNBC called the largest private merger ever, at $1 trillion for SpaceX and $250 billion for xAI. The deal put an AI business, and its losses and data-center spending, into the company that would go public.
on SpaceX Goes Public: From the $350 Billion Tender Offer to the Largest IPO Ever and the Lockups - Nvidia is strategic investor in xAI's Series E Financial
Nvidia was a strategic investor in xAI's $20 billion Series E financing. xAI did not disclose Nvidia's individual investment amount.
on Nvidia's Dealmaking: From Mellanox and the Failed Arm Bid to Groq and Hugging Face