xAI

What xAI does

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) is a foundation-model AI company founded by Elon Musk in November 2023 and acquired by SpaceX on February 2, 2026. Its core product is Grok, a multimodal assistant and API platform covering text, code, voice, images, and video generation, served through grok.com, iOS, Android, X (Twitter), Tesla vehicles, and a unified xAI API that is compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs and distributed across Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Vertex Model Garden, and Amazon Bedrock. Underlying the product surface is Colossus, an in-house AI supercomputer of 200,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs in a single interconnected cluster, with a stated roadmap to 1,000,000 GPUs.

The company operates a hybrid business model: a freemium consumer funnel through grok.com, SuperGrok subscriptions at $30/month, and a SuperGrok Heavy tier; team and enterprise tiers priced at $30 per user per month and custom-quoted Enterprise plans with SSO, SCIM, customer-managed encryption, and a dedicated data plane; usage-based API pricing (for example, $2/M input and $6/M output for Grok 4.5); and a dedicated US Government and global government sales motion with FedRAMP-ready controls. Customer segments span individual consumers, developers, small and large enterprises (Interactive Brokers, eToro, Gopuff, Starlink, Vapi, Databricks, GitHub), and sovereign and federal customers (US Department of War, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia/HUMAIN).

SpaceXAI has raised approximately $32B in disclosed funding since November 2023, with investors including A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Sequoia Capital, QIA, MGX, Lightspeed, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Kingdom Holdings, and OIA. The company maintains offices in Palo Alto, Seattle, Memphis, Austin, New York, London, and Singapore, and faces active regulatory and litigation exposure across image generation, deepfake misuse, and the environmental impact of its data center operations.

Name

xAI

Legal name

X.AI LLC

Website

https://x.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) builds frontier multimodal AI models, primarily the Grok assistant and API, serving consumers, developers, enterprises, and government customers with text, code, voice, image, and video capabilities trained on the Colossus supercomputer.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Platform Services

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Compute Cloud & GPU-as-a-Service (HDAAAAAK)

Keywords

• Frontier AI models
• Multimodal AI assistant
• AI supercomputer infrastructure
• Generative AI API
• Enterprise AI platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SuperGrok Subscription: Consumer subscription at $30/month offering higher rate limits and access to frontier models including Grok 4.5. Upsell from free tier with automatic rate limit increases. Premium X subscription integration.
2. Grok Business Subscription: Team subscription at $30/month per user for small-to-medium teams. Enterprise tier at custom pricing with advanced features including SSO, SCIM, custom RBAC, dedicated onboarding, customer-managed encryption keys, and dedicated data plane.
3. API Usage-based: Pay-per-token pricing for text models ($2.00/M input, $6.00/M output for Grok 4.5), voice services ($0.05-$0.08/min speech-to-speech, $15/M characters TTS, $0.10-$0.20/hr STT), and media generation (image $0.002-$0.07, video $0.01-$0.07/sec). Self-serve consumption model with automatic rate limits.
4. Government Contracts: Dedicated US Government and global government sales motion with specialized compliance requirements (FedRAMP-ready controls, audit logging, access controls, data residency). Contract vehicles through GSA and direct engagement with US Department of War.
5. Free Tier with Upsell: Free access to Grok with generous rate limits on grok.com, iOS, and Android apps. Non-monetized free tier drives awareness and conversion to SuperGrok and API paid usage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

xAI builds and deploys frontier AI models (the Grok family) and provides a multimodal AI assistant plus a unified API platform spanning reasoning, search, voice, image, and video generation. Models are trained on Colossus, the world's largest AI supercomputer with 200,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Offerings target consumers (grok.com, SuperGrok subscriptions), developers (API with pay-per-token pricing), enterprises (Business and Enterprise tiers with SSO/SOC 2), and government agencies (Grok for Government).

Product overview

SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) operates a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on Grok, a frontier AI assistant providing chat, search, reasoning, and content generation. The core platform includes Grok (consumer and business versions), accessible via web, iOS, Android, X, and API. Modules span vertical solutions (Grok for Government, Legal, Security, Customer Support), developer tools (Grok Build coding agent, Grok API), media generation (Grok Voice with speech-to-speech/text/synthesis, Grok Imagine for image/video), and subscription tiers (Free, SuperGrok Lite at $8/mo, SuperGrok at $30/mo, SuperGrok Heavy). Enterprise tiers (Business at $30/user/mo, Enterprise with custom pricing) add secure data isolation, SSO/SCIM, customer-managed encryption, and dedicated infrastructure. The platform runs on Colossus, a 200K GPU supercomputer, with models including Grok 4.5 (flagship reasoning model), Grok 4.1, Grok 4, and specialized variants for voice and coding. Grok integrates with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, HubSpot, and major cloud platforms (Azure, Oracle, Google Cloud).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Grok: AI chatbot with voice and image generation capabilities - truth-seeking assistant for everyday work including writing, research, quick recaps, reasoning, multi-agent mode, web search, image/video generation, and code generation.
• SuperGrok
• Colossus
• Grok Business
• Grok Enterprise
• Grok Build
• Build Mode
• Grok Imagine
• Grok Voice
• SuperGrok Heavy

Products and services

• Grok Truth-seeking AI assistant providing chat, search, reasoning, and content generation. Available on web, iOS, Android, and X platform with real-time web search, live X integration, deep reasoning, multi-agent mode, and multimodal capabilities.
• Grok 4.5 Flagship reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Leads industry in coding performance, non-hallucination rate, and agentic tool calling. Supports both non-reasoning and reasoning modes with 500k context window. Available via API, GitHub Copilot, and Grok platform.
• Grok Build Terminal-based coding agent powered by Grok 4.5. Plans, implements, tests, and deploys code with subagents, skills, hooks, and MCP server integrations. Available as CLI install, open source harness, and API access.
• Grok Voice Voice AI platform with speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech capabilities. Voice Think Fast 2.0 achieves 82.9% quality score with sub-second latency. Voice Agent Builder enables no-code creation of voice agents in under 2 minutes.
• Grok Imagine Generative media platform for image and video creation. Supports text-to-image, image editing, text-to-video, and Imagine Video 1.5 with 1080p, voice references, and multi-reference generation.
• Grok Business Enterprise AI deployment for teams at $30/month per user with secure data isolation, real-time knowledge across tools, and production-ready outputs. SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA eligible, GDPR compliant. Includes Connectors for Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Notion.
• Grok Enterprise Advanced enterprise tier with custom SSO, SCIM directory sync, customer-managed encryption keys, application-level encryption, dedicated data plane, and advanced audit controls. For large organizations with advanced compliance needs.
• Grok API Unified API for text, code, voice, images, and video models. Compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs. Grok 4.5 (500k context, $2 input/$6 output), grok-imagine-image, grok-imagine-video, and voice APIs available. Available on Azure, Oracle OCI, and Google Cloud.
• Grok for Government Frontier AI for national mission with security, compliance, and deployment controls for federal agencies. Use cases include intelligence analysis, operational planning, citizen services, defense logistics, R&D, and regulatory compliance. Contact [email protected].
• Grok for Legal AI for legal teams covering contract review, legal research, compliance monitoring, document drafting, and due diligence. Claims 80% faster contract review, 10x more documents processed, 50% reduction in compliance gaps.
• Grok for Security AI for security teams with threat analysis, alert triage (10x faster), incident response, vulnerability assessment, and compliance reporting. Integrates with Splunk, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, SentinelOne, Datadog. 90% noise reduction claimed.
• Grok for Customer Support AI-powered customer support with voice agents, chat/email triage, knowledge base integration, sentiment detection, and analytics. Claims 60% reduction in first-response time, 24/7 availability, 3x more tickets per agent. Integrates with Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, Slack, HubSpot.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% faster contract review in legal workflows
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers11 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

Integration28 records

AI capability15 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GitHub (Microsoft)coreTechnology or Integration · 28 July 2026Grok 4.5 available in GitHub Copilot for millions of developers using VSCode and GitHub products. Model picker integration enables direct Grok 4.5 access within Copilot workflow.
• Amazon BedrockcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 17 June 2026Grok models available via Amazon Bedrock. Enables AWS customers to access Grok through existing AWS infrastructure and commitments.
• AnthropiccoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026New compute partnership with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1 infrastructure. SpaceXAI signed agreement for Anthropic to utilize its GPU cluster for AI training workloads. Fills compute capacity gap for Anthropic while validating Colossus capabilities.
• US Federal Government (CAISI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026Agreements with Google, Microsoft Corp., and xAI to vet unreleased AI models before public release through Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI). Government early access program for frontier models.
• SpaceX (Parent)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 February 2026SpaceX announced acquisition of xAI. xAI joins SpaceX combining advanced AI capabilities with SpaceX's infrastructure and resources. xAI rebranded as SpaceXAI.
• Microsoft AzurecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 6 January 2026Pre-launch government testing agreement with Microsoft and xAI for frontier AI models. Also available via Azure AI Foundry for enterprise procurement.
• GooglecoreTechnology or Integration · 6 January 2026Pre-launch government testing agreement with Google and xAI for frontier AI models. Grok available on Google Cloud Vertex Model Garden.
• US Department of WarcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 December 2025Selected by US Department of War to deliver Frontier AI for national defense mission. Government contract for defense AI applications with specialized compliance and security requirements.
• El SalvadorcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 December 2025World's first nationwide AI education program partnership with Government of El Salvador. Transformative initiative to bring AI education to an entire country. Pioneering sovereign AI education deployment.
• Saudi Arabia / HUMAINcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 November 2025Landmark partnership with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN for global AI deployment. Grok goes global with sovereign AI infrastructure partnership in the Middle East. Strategic relationship for international expansion.
• GSA OneGovminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 25 September 2025Expanded xAI for Government with GSA OneGov accessible AI tools for Federal Government. Distribution through government procurement channels.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Direct peers

• Lambda Labs: Lambda operates GPU clusters and cloud services for AI training/inference. Comparable as an AI compute cloud peer serving foundation-model labs and enterprises.
• CoreWeave: CoreWeave operates large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference, and is a recent compute customer/partner of xAI. Most comparable on the AI Compute Cloud & GPU-as-a-Service axis of xAI's Colossus business.
• Anthropic: Anthropic develops Claude frontier models sold to enterprises and developers via API. Comparable on model positioning, API-first GTM, enterprise security focus, and as a recent compute customer of Colossus.
• Google DeepMind: Google DeepMind builds Gemini frontier models distributed through Google Cloud Vertex and consumer surfaces. Direct peer on multimodal capability, voice quality benchmarks, and sovereign/defence cloud distribution.
• Cohere: Cohere builds enterprise-focused LLMs and RAG/retrieval products. Comparable in targeting regulated enterprise buyers with private deployments and security certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA).
• OpenAI: OpenAI develops and serves frontier GPT/ChatGPT models via consumer and enterprise APIs. Most direct comparable: same foundation-model product, same target customers, similar multimodal strategy and similar revenue mix between subscriptions and usage-based API.
• Mistral AI: Mistral develops open and commercial large language models sold to enterprises and developers. Comparable in API-first foundation-model category, with overlap in coding, reasoning, and enterprise compliance positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Azure AI / Copilot): Microsoft distributes OpenAI models and develops Copilot across Office and Azure AI Foundry. Comparable as both a frontier-model host and a distribution channel partner for Grok on Azure.
• Meta AI (FAIR / Llama): Meta's Llama family and Meta AI assistant are broad foundation-model offerings. Comparable in multimodal frontier model category but distributed as part of Meta's wider consumer and advertising portfolio.

Emerging players

• Perplexity AI: Perplexity is an AI-native answer/search engine built on top of frontier LLMs. Comparable in real-time web-grounded answer product surface that overlaps with Grok's real-time search positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds11 records

Investors62 records

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

M&A2 records

Investments

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

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