Elon Musk has announced the sale of his social media platform X to his artificial intelligence company, xAI, in an all-stock transaction valued at $33 billion. The deal, revealed on March 30, 2025, marks a significant shift for both companies, which are privately held and not required to disclose detailed financial information. Musk emphasized that this merger would create “immense potential” by merging xAI’s advanced AI capabilities with X’s vast user base.
The deal values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. Musk, who had acquired Twitter (now X) for $44 billion in 2022, previously overhauled the platform’s staff and policies before rebranding it to X. A year later, he launched xAI.
Musk described the combined efforts of xAI and X as a way to create smarter and more meaningful experiences for billions of users while staying true to the mission of advancing knowledge and seeking truth. Although the full impact of the sale on X users is unclear, xAI already utilizes data from X user posts to train its AI models, and paying X users have access to the AI chatbot, Grok.
