- In The Loop AI
- Posts
- X-pected Merge
In Today’s Issue:
xAI Company buys X for a 33B deal
OpenAI banks on viral trend Studio Ghibli
Gemini is all the hype
Read time: 3 minutes
xAI and X merge
Elon Musk made a massive move—his flagship AI company, xAI, is buying X (formerly Twitter) in a $33 billion all-stock deal. He's merging his AI chatbot, Grok, directly into X, making the platform more AI-driven. This also helps Musk consolidate his businesses under one roof, xAI Holdings Corp. The big picture? AI and social media are blending even more, and Musk wants to own that space. This could make X smarter—or just another AI experiment. What do you think?
Technical details:
Deal Value: $33 billion (all-stock transaction)
New Holding Company: xAI Holdings Corp
X’s Debt Included: $12 billion
xAI’s New Valuation: $80 billion
AI Integration: Grok chatbot embedded into X
Strategic Goal: Merge AI capabilities with X’s social platform for smarter interactions
xAI
OpenAI banks on viral trend Studio Ghibli
OpenAI had a viral moment this week that brought users to test out their image generation feature. The Studio Ghibli art style could be seen everywhere on social media, and Sam Altman acknowledged the virality by changing his X profile picture into a ‟Ghiblified‟ image of himself. To generate images of different art styles with AI is not a novelty, but the ease of generating a high-quality text-to-image picture without adjusting parameters has improved dramatically.
Studio Ghibli Artstyle
Gemini is all the hype
Which company has the best AI model at the end of March? Polymarket
Google’s AI model Gemini has been a dark horse in the race for the best LLM. When Gemini 2.5 was released earlier this week, people were blown away by its performance. Technically, Gemini 2.5 Pro features an expanded context window of up to 2 million tokens, allowing it to handle extensive data inputs effectively. Its "reasoning" abilities enable step-by-step task processing, leading to more accurate responses, particularly for complex prompts. Could this be the moment that Gemini surpasses every LLM and keeps the #1 podium?
How was today's newsletter? |
Reply