Summary
Elon Musk announced that his AI startup xAI has merged with his social media platform X in an all-stock deal, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.
Musk stated the merger will combine AI expertise with X’s broad reach.
xAI, launched less than two years ago, competes with OpenAI and has developed the Grok chatbot, integrated with X.
Hmm…
Manipulating stocks between companies you own for fun and profit…
Sounds pretty Ferengi to me.
And no accountings shall be held…
🙄 🤡 🤦♀️ 🖕
He essentially did the same thing with Solar City a decade ago. Although that was “owned” by his cousins and he bailed them out with by buying it for a few billion.
Bimbo AG Blondie: looks good to me! Nothing illegal.
Two companies no one wanted now one company no one wants.
Company worthless? Sell it to yourself for a ludicrous cost to increase your market value!
You mad, wage slaves?
I was also today years old when I read a headline about DOGE heading into the SEC.
Weird.
Neither of those valuations are supported by reality.
Musk stated the merger will combine AI expertise with X’s broad reach.
Ah yes, the famous combining two losing strategies, so they can lose money twice as efficiently.
This reminds me of when Kmart bought Sears.
At least neither Kmart nor Sears were Nazi hangouts.
Well, Sears went under because the CEO was a True Believer in the Libertarian/Atlas Shrugged/Starve The Beast method of running a business. He genuinely thought that making stores and even individual departments fight for ever reducing funding was going to make them better. What he learned is that when people have their livelihood at stake, they fight dirty and lie.
When Sears finally closed forever, he said he regretted it. Probably not as much as the people whose lives he ruined.
Market cap of Twitter was $41B, Musk overpaid at $44B,
Fidelity valued it at $9.4B late last year.
xAI paid $33B for it this year.
So this is a significantly worse overpay.
It’s all to defraud investors. The SEC isn’t going to touch him, and when the earnings report for Tesla is due I bet it’s going to show that the woke libtards were wrong and Tesla sales actually quadrupled in the past 4 months.
It went up after the election. Last valuation was back to $44B. It not about Twtter’s valuation, it’s about Tesla stock price. I don’t understand the scam but I’m pretty sure he had to refinance his loan somehow because Tesla stock dropped.
Honestly wasn’t sure if they were talking about one of his children when they said xAI
Pronounced ‘barbara’
valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion
So… fraud.
This is just oligarchs moving their chess pieces around. Expect nothing to come of it. Expect elon to face zero consequences.
It shouldn’t be hard. If you accept the existence of billionaires you accept that some people shouldn’t ever face consequences and be rewarded for toxic behavior.
He can’t even justify to himself that Twitter is worth the $44 billion he (and investors) paid for it.
And you’d think a self-perceived business genius would be able to significantly increase the value of said purchase, not lose billions.
He added that the merger would, “unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach."
He already owns and runs Xitter as a propaganda tool. Now he’s openly mixing it with his own bots.
Does anyone else get a really bad feeling about this? I see a lot of comments talking about this financially, but I haven’t seen any comments talking about the disinformation potential that comes with artificially seeding a social media site with his own AI bots. Granted, Grok’s responses have been based (so far), but that’s not guaranteed to last.
I don’t know exactly what the game plan is here, but the pieces are all laid out for Musk to spread his influence behind AI anonymity. That worries me.
Honestly it’s probably to mess with the valuation. It’s propped up partially by Tesla shares iirc.
I hope I make it out alive of the scam economy. This mother sucker gets away with murder and I have dodge scammers left and right bcz there is no justice or rule of law.
I used to think it was a straight market manipulation to short the market, coupled with a crypto scam.
Here’s my latest prediction for the next step: as well as being a geopolitical tool, I think they plan to use Trump’s tariffs as a way to funnel more tax revenue into US Government to be directly laundered for themselves personally. The reduced order volume doesn’t matter to them because 25%, 50%, 100% or whatever tariff they charge goods and services will go straight to the US government to be compliantly fed into Musk’s ever-expanding business interests via government contracts. Some of those in the loop get vested stock options and get to run away with exponentially more money than they would without tariffs. Musk has already paid his dues so probably thinks they owe him.
They already tried to alter an agreement for 480,000 contract to Tesla for armed cybertrucks to be 480,000,000 and backdated it to look like it was agreed by Biden last year.
I expect to see a multi-billion AI contract awarded solely to xAI in the near future.
He is struggling. Keep it going folks. Let’s send this mofo back to South Africa. Not sure if they even want him.
I guess we can all settle with a dog cage in Guantanamo then
We don’t. Our Government pretty much hates the guy.
He’ll feel right at home in orania I suspect.
