SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's tenth test flight in early August, as confirmed by Elon Musk on July 14, 2025. Despite a recent upper-stage explos

Elon Musk has taken a big step towards integrating all his businesses into an AI-based future. According to news agency Reuters, Musk's space company SpaceX has invested $2 billion in his AI startup xAI.

The money behind Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar empire is increasingly flowing in one direction: toward artificial intelligence.

According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to invest $2 billion in Musk’s AI startup xAI. The investment would reportedly be part of the $5 billion equity raise (along with another $5 billion in debt) that Morgan Stanley announced at the end of June.

Investors familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the rocket company SpaceX has agreed to invest a whopping $2 billion in xAI, the Musk-led firm behind the controversial large language model Grok. This investment makes up almost half of the $5 billion of equity that the AI company raised last month.

Elon Musk once explained that he turns ambitious ideas into reality by starting with low-cost software ventures, using first principles thinking, and combining insights across industries—even without major funding.

Musk often talks about pushing SpaceX to compete against the limits of physics and has set ambitious latency goals for Starlink. In 2024, SpaceX disclosed that median latency for Starlink was 33 millisec., and it was aiming for 20 millisec.

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