SpaceX Acquires xAI: How Much Is The Combined Company Worth?

Markets will soon test a Musk merger that promises 'space-based internet'

Elon Musk’s move last week to combine SpaceX and xAI has created one of the world’s biggest and most valuable private companies, which analysts say offers a mix of potential growth and financial risk as it heads toward public markets

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SpaceX Acquires xAI: How Much Is The Combined Company Worth?

Two Elon Musk-owned companies, SpaceX and xAI, have begun a massive merger. What will be the result of the combination and how much will it be worth?

SpaceX xAI Merger 2026 Faces Major Market Risk and Big Expectations

The SpaceX xAI merger has emerged as one of the most closely watched corporate developments of 2026, bringing together two of Elon Musk’s most ambitious ventures under a single strategic vision. The move blends space launch dominance with artificial intelligence development, creating a company that aims to reshape how data, connectivity, and intelligence operate on a global scale. While the announcement generated excitement across technology and…

Why SpaceX acquired xAI

Hello and welcome to Sync #557! This week, we take a closer look at the merger of SpaceX and xAI, and why it looks more like a bailout than a step towards enabling humanity’s next phase of progress.Elsewhere in AI, it’s been a big week for Anthropic, which released Claude Opus 4.6, committed to keeping Claude ad-free (while roasting OpenAI along the way), and shared how Claude became the first AI to plan and carry out a real drive on another pla…

Why has Elon Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup?

As well as extending “the light of consciousness to the stars”, as Musk described it, the transaction creates a business worth $1.25tn (£920bn) by combining Musk’s rocket company with his artificial intelligence startup. It values SpaceX at $1tn and xAI at $250bn, with a stock market flotation…