The merger puts the billionaire entrepreneur’s rocket and artificial-intelligence companies under one roof.

The countdown is complete and SpaceX has finally acquired xAI in a deal valued at around $1.25 trillion.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI in a deal that encompasses the billionaire’s increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.

In a bold consolidation that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and aerospace, SpaceX has completed the acquisition of

For much of the past three years, Elon Musk’s xAI has tried to compete against the leading AI labs, including OpenAI, the company he co-founded and later clashed with. The results have been mixed: xAI’s flagship product,