xAI Corp. × X Corp.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI Corp., acquired his social media company, X Corp. (formerly Twitter), in an all-stock transaction announced on March 28, 2025. [27, 29, 32] The deal valued X Corp. at $33 billion, excluding $12 billion in debt, and the combined entity at $80 billion. [29, 45] Musk explicitly stated the purpose was to combine "data, models, compute, distribution and talent" to unlock potential by blending xAI's AI capabilities with X's massive data reach. [27, 39]
The asset
The entire social media platform, including its real-time user-generated content data, for the stated purpose of training xAI's artificial intelligence models like Grok.
- 600M active users
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- social network
- Modalities
- text, images, video
- Jurisdiction
- US
What it means if you hold data
This acquisition represents one of the largest vertical integrations of a social media data firehose directly into a frontier AI lab. It formalizes the use of X's real-time public conversation data as a core, proprietary asset for training and refining xAI's Grok models, moving beyond standard licensing deals to outright ownership of the data source. [33, 39]