Nevertheless, the deals — and xAI’s developer and consumer-facing products — have driven xAI’s revenue to around $100 million a year. For comparison, Anthropic is reportedly on pace to generate $1 billion in revenue this year, and OpenAI is targeting $4 billion by the end of 2024.

The development of Aurora, xAI’s image generation system, enters a rapidly growing market for AI-generated content, which is projected to reach $110 billion by 2030. Early demonstrations of Aurora have shown promising results in creating highly detailed and contextually accurate images.

AI has successfully closed its Series C funding round, raising $6 billion with participation from investors such as A16Z, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Lightspeed,

Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI raises $6 billion in Series C funding round on Monday, December 23. Blackrock, AMD, Nvidia, Fidelity were among the top investors pooling in the investment.

Elon Musk xAI raises $6B, totaling $12B funding amid lawsuits against OpenAI, and Microsoft over alleged anti-competitive practices.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture xAI has attracted funding from regional investors including Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding, the Qatar Investment Authority and the Oman Investment Authority.