xAI, Elon Musk’s AI firm behind the Grok chatbot — it additionally owns X — introduced that it has raised $20 billion in a Collection E funding spherical.
The corporate wrote in a blog post that traders will embrace Valor Fairness Companions, Constancy, Qatar Funding Authority, and others, together with Nvidia and Cisco as “strategic traders.” xAI has not disclosed if these investments come within the type of fairness or debt.
xAI says it has about 600 million month-to-month energetic customers of X and Grok, and it’ll use this new funding to proceed increasing its knowledge facilities and Grok fashions.
Nevertheless, as xAI grows, so does its capability for hurt. This previous weekend, X customers requested Grok to create sexualized deepfakes of actual folks — together with youngsters. As an alternative of refusing these requests or activating any form of guardrail, Grok complied, successfully producing little one sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and different nonconsensual sexual content material of actual folks.
xAI is now beneath investigation by worldwide authorities within the European Union, the UK, India, Malaysia, and France.
