Musk's AI startup xAI recently announced that it has completed a $6 billion Series C funding round, with investors including top firms like A16Z and BlackRock. (Background: Musk's xAI has made 'Grok-2' freely available to all X users, showcasing three major new features.) (Additional context: Musk's xAI launched the world's most powerful AI training system 'Colossus': integrating 100,000 NVIDIA H100 chips) The founder of Tesla, Musk, officially announced on the 23rd of this week that his AI startup xAI has successfully completed a Series C funding round of up to $6 billion (foreign media estimate the valuation has risen to $40 billion). Major investors are as previously expected, including a16z, BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, Morgan Stanley, and other top investment firms. At the same time, chip giants NVIDIA and AMD will also act as strategic investors to help xAI rapidly expand its infrastructure. xAI Achieves Major Technological Advances Additionally, xAI pointed out in its press release that since announcing the completion of its Series B funding in May 2024, it has made significant technological progress, specifically including: Building the Super AI Computer Colossus: xAI has established a tremendous hardware advantage through the super AI computer Colossus, which utilizes 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and was fully operational within 122 days of construction. Furthermore, xAI plans to double the scale of Colossus using NVIDIA's Ethernet technology. Grok 2 AI Model: Already possesses advanced reasoning capabilities. xAI API: Allows developers to programmatically access xAI's foundational models, with features such as text generation and visual processing. Aurora: An image generation model primarily designed to enhance multimodal AI's understanding, editing, and generation capabilities. X (Twitter) Integrates Grok: Twitter users can interact with Grok on the X platform. Finally, xAI added that the Grok 3 model is currently in training, and xAI will focus on launching innovative products aimed at consumers and enterprises in the future. Related Reports A year ago, 1,100 AI experts protested against the development of ChatGPT, and Musk's xAI has completed a $6 billion fundraising round while intensifying training for Grok 2. Musk's xAI announced the open-sourcing of Grok, with 314 billion parameters shocking the industry, directly claiming 'OpenAI is a lie.' Meme coins surged alongside Musk, with the same name xAI model '$Grok' skyrocketing 10 times! The community shouted: 'Like SHIB before its surge.' 'Musk's xAI completes $6 billion Series C funding, with NVIDIA, BlackRock, A16Z... a host of industry heavyweights participating.' This article was first published on BlockTempo (the most influential blockchain news media).