X.AI Holdings Corp.

What X.AI Holdings Corp. does

xAI is a frontier AI research and deployment company that builds and operates the Grok family of large language and multimodal models. It was founded in 2023, is organized as X.AI LLC in Delaware (DBA SpaceXAI and xAI), and on February 2, 2026 was acquired by SpaceX. The company's product portfolio spans the Grok consumer assistant (free tier inside X plus SuperGrok subscriptions), Grok 4.5 (flagship reasoning model released July 16, 2026), Grok Build (a CLI coding agent), the Imagine API for image and video generation, the Voice API, the Automations workflow product, and vertical offerings branded Grok Business, Grok Enterprise, and Grok Government. Microsoft 365 add-ins for Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint extend Grok into productivity workflows, and the model is listed across all four major hyperscalers — Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, and AWS Bedrock — alongside a Databricks integration.\n\nThe technology stack is anchored by Colossus, a 200,000-NVIDIA H100 supercomputer assembled in 122 days, with 170 PB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth, 2.8 Tb/s of per-server network bandwidth, and over 0.5 EB of storage, with a stated roadmap to 1 million GPUs. Models are trained fully in-house, and xAI has open-sourced prior-generation weights (Grok-1, a 314B-parameter MoE). Grok 4.5 carries reported claims of 4.2x token efficiency and 80 tokens-per-second throughput, and holds the #1 position on the Tau Voice Leaderboard and on Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video. Real-time grounding via the X platform is a structural differentiator versus model-only competitors.\n\nxAI monetizes through a layered model. The consumer lane pairs a free X-integrated experience with SuperGrok (a paid subscription, with a higher-priced Heavy tier). The prosumer and SMB lane is Grok Business at $30 per user per month. Developers pay usage-based API pricing across text, image, video, and voice. Large customers and government agencies contract through Grok Enterprise and Grok Government at custom terms, including deployments for the US Department of War, the Government of El Salvador, and HUMAIN in Saudi Arabia. Cumulative disclosed funding is approximately $32B across a $6B Series B (May 26, 2024), a $6B Series C (December 23, 2024), and a $20B Series E (January 6, 2026), and the company has reported usage of more than 300M daily queries and more than 1M daily API calls.

Name

X.AI Holdings Corp.

Legal name

X.AI LLC

Website

https://x.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Acquired

Short description

xAI (operating as SpaceXAI) is a frontier AI company building the Grok family of multimodal large language models on its 200,000-GPU Colossus supercomputer, serving consumers, developers, enterprises, and government agencies through subscriptions, APIs, and dedicated deployments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Consumer Subscriptions: Free tier with generous limits for individual users. SuperGrok subscription at $30/month provides access to Grok 4.5 model, higher rate limits, Expert mode, and image/video generation. SuperGrok Heavy tier offers highest rate limits for power users.
2. API Usage: Usage-based pricing for API access. Grok 4.5: $2/M input tokens, $6/M output tokens. Voice API: Speech-to-Speech $0.05/min, Text-to-Speech $15/M characters, Speech-to-Text $0.10-$0.20/hr. Imagine API: Image generation from $0.02/img, video generation from $0.05/sec.
3. Enterprise Licensing: Enterprise tier with custom rate limits, dedicated infrastructure, SSO, SCIM, advanced security controls, customer-managed encryption keys, dedicated data plane, and volume pricing. Billed via monthly invoices. Includes dedicated onboarding and ongoing support.
4. Government Contracts: xAI For Government suite with frontier AI products for US Government customers, including DoD/Department of War. Saudi Arabia partnership through HUMAIN. El Salvador nationwide AI education program. Specialized compliance and security requirements for government deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels9 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

X.AI Holdings Corp. (operating as SpaceXAI / xAI) develops, trains, and commercializes the Grok family of frontier foundation models (text, code, voice, image, and video) on its proprietary Colossus supercomputer and makes them available through consumer applications (grok.com, iOS, Android, X), a unified multimodal API, enterprise and government tiers, and embedded Microsoft 365 add-ins. Its core revenue-generating surfaces are consumer subscriptions (SuperGrok), pay-as-you-go API usage (Grok 4.5, Imagine, Voice), and custom-priced enterprise and government licensing.

Product overview

SpaceXAI operates a unified AI platform centered on Grok, its flagship AI assistant available across web, iOS, Android, and X. The platform is built on the Colossus supercomputer (200K NVIDIA H100 GPUs) and offers a modular portfolio of products: Grok (core assistant), Grok 4.5 (flagship reasoning model), Grok Build (CLI coding agent with autonomous agents), the Imagine API (image/video generation), and Voice API (speech processing). Vertical solutions include Grok Business (enterprise with connectors to Salesforce/HubSpot/Slack/Notion) and Grok Government (for agencies). Microsoft 365 add-ins extend Grok into Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Access is tiered via Free, SuperGrok ($30/month), Business ($30/user/month), and Enterprise plans. All capabilities are accessible via a unified API compatible with OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Grok: AI assistant and chatbot product line including Grok, Grok Business, Grok Enterprise, and Grok Government solutions.
• Grok Build
• Grok Imagine
• Grok Voice
• Colossus
• SuperGrok

Products and services

• Grok SpaceXAI's flagship AI assistant available across web (grok.com), iOS, Android apps, and the X platform. Provides real-time web and X search, voice mode, conversational AI, file management, document analysis, and access to Grok models with a free tier and a $30/month SuperGrok subscription.
• Grok 4.5 SpaceXAI's flagship reasoning model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Achieves 80 TPS serving speed with 4.2x better token efficiency than comparable models, leads the industry in non-hallucination rate and agentic tool calling, and is exposed via the xAI API, Grok Build, and partner integrations like Cursor.
• Imagine API State-of-the-art image and video generation API with text-to-image, image-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, virtual try-on, and product placement capabilities. Supports up to 2K resolution (10 images per request) and up to 15-second video clips at 480p–720p, priced per image or per second of video.
• Voice API Voice agent platform providing Speech-to-Speech, Text-to-Speech, and Speech-to-Text APIs, custom voice cloning from as little as 2 minutes of audio, a no-code Voice Agent Builder, and 25+ multilingual voices. Integrates with Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Linear, OneDrive, Notion, and telephony via SIP; SOC 2, HIPAA-eligible, and GDPR compliant.
• Grok Build CLI Open-source command-line coding agent powered by Grok 4.5 for complex coding work. Features plan mode, parallel subagents, a skills system, MCP server connections (Linear, Sentry, Postgres, Grafana), hooks, memory persistence, multi-file edits, git integration, terminal execution, and sandboxed execution; available to free-tier and SuperGrok users.
• Grok Business Enterprise-tier AI solution with SOC 2 Type I and II compliance, role-based access control, team seat management, consolidated billing, domain verification, user analytics, advanced audit controls, and deep Connectors to Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion, Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Linear, OneDrive, and custom MCP servers; priced at $30/month per user.
• xAI for Government Frontier AI solution purpose-built for government agencies with security, compliance, and deployment controls including secure deployment, audit logging, access controls, and data residency options. Supports intelligence analysis, operational planning, citizen services, defense logistics, research and development, regulatory compliance, and document analysis for US and global government customers.
• Grok for Outlook Microsoft 365 add-in for Outlook that summarizes email threads, drafts replies in the user's voice, and keeps the inbox organized. Available to paid X and SuperGrok users via the Microsoft Marketplace.
• Grok for Excel Free Microsoft 365 add-in for Excel that lets users ask questions about their data in plain English, write formulas, run scenarios, and analyze workbooks with charts and citations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60% reduction in first-response time for customer support
• +10 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration26 records

AI capability16 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• CursorcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 July 2026Co-training partnership with Cursor for Grok 4.5 development. Grok 4.5 trained alongside Cursor on specialized engineering datasets for coding and agentic tasks.
• Interactive BrokerscoreTechnology or Integration · 25 June 2026Interactive Brokers integrates with Grok for trading experience - portfolio analysis, scenario modeling, research, and order instructions powered by Grok AI.
• DatabrickscoreTechnology or Integration · 18 June 2026Grok models available on Databricks Agent Bricks for enterprise data and ML workflows.
• Amazon Web Services (Bedrock)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 17 June 2026Grok models available via Amazon Bedrock on AWS infrastructure.
• eTorocoreTechnology or Integration · 10 June 2026eToro's AI agent Tori uses xAI models to embed real-time market sentiment directly into Tori's investing workflow.
• GopuffcoreTechnology or Integration · 9 June 2026Gopuff and xAI launched Go, an AI-powered shopping assistant built into the Gopuff app. Powered by Grok text, audio, and image models.
• VapicoreTechnology or Integration · 3 June 2026Grok became the voice of Vapi, bringing frontier voice quality to millions of Vapi voice agents.
• AnthropiccoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026New compute partnership where xAI provides Anthropic access to Colossus 1 supercomputer infrastructure. xAI's Colossus is the world's largest AI training system with 200,000 H100 GPUs. Anthropic partners with Colossus for compute resources.
• Government of El SalvadorflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 December 2025Pioneering world's first nationwide AI education program. xAI and El Salvador partnership for transformative AI education deployment nationwide.
• HUMAIN (Saudi Arabia)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 November 2025Landmark partnership with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN for global AI deployment. xAI goes global with KSA - Grok available for Saudi Arabian market through this partnership.
• Microsoft AzurecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAzure AI Foundry provides first-party support for Grok deployment on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Oracle Cloud InfrastructurecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOCI Generative AI provides Grok models on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Google CloudcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorVertex Model Garden provides Grok models on Google Cloud Platform.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Azure AI / Copilot): Microsoft hosts Grok on Azure AI Foundry while also fielding its own Copilot and OpenAI partnership. Competes with xAI on enterprise productivity distribution (Office 365) and on cloud marketplace positioning for AI workloads.
• Google DeepMind (Gemini): Google ships Gemini frontier models natively across Search, Workspace, Cloud (Vertex), and Android, giving it distribution depth that exceeds xAI's. Direct competition on reasoning, multimodal, and coding benchmarks; integration with Google's enterprise stack is a structural advantage.
• Amazon Web Services (Bedrock / Anthropic): AWS Bedrock is the primary distribution channel for several Grok competitors (Anthropic Claude, Mistral, Cohere) and also hosts Grok models. AWS represents both a hyperscale distribution partner and a competitive frontier-model channel.
• Meta AI (Llama): Meta's open-weight Llama family competes with Grok on price-performance and developer mindshare, particularly in self-hosted and open-source enterprise deployments. Meta's broader social distribution surfaces Meta AI to billions of users, analogous to xAI's X distribution.

Emerging players

• Perplexity AI: Perplexity is an AI answer engine with real-time web search and an emerging enterprise/API offering. Overlaps with Grok's real-time web and X search positioning and competes for developer and prosumer attention on reasoning-with-search workloads.
• Cursor: Cursor is a coding-agent IDE product that co-trained Grok 4.5 with xAI but also partners with and competes against xAI by routing to Anthropic and OpenAI models. A direct competitor in the coding-agent wedge where Grok Build also plays.
• Mistral AI: Mistral ships open-weight and hosted frontier models targeting enterprise and developer use cases, with a comparable API-first and European data-residency narrative. Competes with xAI on cost-efficient coding and reasoning workloads.

Direct peers

• OpenAI: OpenAI is the most direct peer to xAI, offering GPT-class frontier LLMs (text, code, vision, voice) through ChatGPT consumer products and an enterprise API that competes head-to-head with Grok. Both target developer self-serve, enterprise procurement, and government use cases.
• Anthropic: Anthropic ships the Claude family of frontier models with comparable coding, reasoning, and enterprise positioning to Grok. Anthropic is also a compute partner leasing Colossus capacity, making it both a direct competitor and an infrastructure customer.
• Cohere: Cohere offers enterprise-focused LLMs (Command, Embed, Rerank) with comparable enterprise controls (SSO, data residency, dedicated deployments) to Grok Business/Enterprise. Targets the same business and regulated-industry buyers with retrieval and agent capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/spacexai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/xai

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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