xAI

Palo Alto, CaliforniaFounded 2023

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To understand the true nature of the universe through building maximally truth-seeking AI. xAI develops advanced AI systems, with flagship product Grok, designed to be more transparent and less politically restricted than competitors.

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Founding Story

xAI was founded by Elon Musk in response to his concerns about AI safety and what he viewed as the 'betrayal' of OpenAI's founding principles. After co-founding OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit to provide an open-source counterweight to big tech, Musk resigned from the board in 2018 due to conflicts. He grew increasingly critical of OpenAI's transition to a closed, for-profit model partnered with Microsoft. In March 2023, Musk incorporated xAI in Nevada, officially announcing it on July 12, 2023. His motivation was to create a 'maximally truth-seeking' AI that would be more transparent and less politically restricted than competitors. Musk recruited a founding team of 12 former employees from OpenAI, DeepMind, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla. The company's stated mission is to 'understand the true nature of the universe,' operating on the philosophy that a maximally curious AI will be inherently pro-humanity.

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Leadership

Founders

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Co-founder of OpenAI (resigned 2018); Previously co-founded PayPal and Neuralink

Igor Babuschkin

Former Google DeepMind AI researcher and engineer

Yuhuai (Tony) Wu

Former researcher with background in AI and machine learning

Kyle Kosic

AI researcher and engineer

Manuel Kroiss

AI researcher and engineer

Greg Yang

AI researcher focused on mathematical theory for large neural networks

Zihang Dai

AI researcher with experience in language models

Toby Pohlen

AI researcher and engineer

Christian Szegedy

Former Google researcher; AI expert

Guodong Zhang

AI researcher and engineer

Jimmy Ba

Former University of Toronto professor; AI researcher specializing in model optimization

Ross Nordeen

AI researcher and engineer

Executive Team

Elon Musk

CEO

Founder and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink; Co-founder of OpenAI and PayPal

Anthony Armstrong

CFO

Former Morgan Stanley banker who advised Musk during Twitter acquisition; Technology M&A specialist

Business Model

Revenue Model

Hybrid model combining: (1) Consumer subscriptions via X Premium/Premium+ and standalone SuperGrok tiers, (2) API usage-based pricing for developers, (3) Enterprise subscriptions (Business and Enterprise tiers), (4) Government contracts, (5) Strategic partnerships. Revenue reached $100 million annualized as of December 2024, nearly doubling quarter-over-quarter to $107 million for Q3 2025.

Pricing Tiers

Free (X / Grok.com)

Basic access to Grok via X platform or grok.com with limited message throughput

X Premium

$8/month

Enhanced Grok access with higher message limits integrated with X Premium subscription

X Premium+

$40/month or $350/year

Priority Grok access, higher message throughput, ad-free X browsing, access to Grok 4

SuperGrok (Standalone)

$30/month or $300/year

Standalone Grok subscription without X Premium; full model access

SuperGrok Heavy

$300/month

High-performance tier with maximum compute priority and access to Grok 4 Heavy model

Grok Business

$30/user/month

Team collaboration, centralized billing, admin controls, Google Drive integration, agentic search

Grok Enterprise

Custom pricing

Enterprise Vault, dedicated infrastructure, customer-managed encryption, SOC 2 compliance, company-wide SSO

Grok for Government

$0.42 per agency (18-month GSA term)

Federal government access to Grok 4 models with dedicated engineering support, training, and upgrade path to FedRAMP

API - Grok 4.1 Fast

$0.20 per million input tokens / $0.50 per million output tokens

75% cached token discount available; developer API access

Private company with no announced IPO plans. Company continues aggressive private capital raising with most recent Series E round in January 2026 at $230 billion valuation.