Elon Musk has sold X in a deal with $ 33 billion to his startup company AI almost three years after purchasing Twitter and rebranded it.
53 -year -old Musk has announced the deal through a statement posted on his X account On Friday, March 28th.
“The combination estimates XAI at $ 80 billion and X at $ 33 billion ($ 45 billion less than $ 12 billion),” Musk wrote. “Since its founding two years ago, XAI has quickly become one of the leading AI laboratories in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale.”
He continued: “X is the Digital Town Square, where more than 600 million active users go to find the source of truth in real time and in the last two years they have been transformed into one of the most effective companies in the world, positioning it to achieve a scale future growth.”
The news comes more than a year after Musk started Grok, a Chatgpt -like AI chatbot.
Musk added that it was time to “take the step to combine data, models, calculation, distribution and talent.”
In April 2022. Tesla CEO achieved a deal to buy Twitter for about $ 44 billion.
“Free speech is the basis of functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital city square, where important for the future of humanity is being discussed,” Musk said in a press release at the time.

Musk shared his plans for major changes to the press release confirming the purchase.
“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by improving the product with new features, which makes open -ended algorithms to increase trust, defeat spam bots and verify all people,” he explained. “Twitter has huge potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of consumers to unlock it.”
Recently, there have also been changes in Musk’s privacy. Businessman welcomed his fourth child with Shivon Zilis In February, which is his 14th child as a whole.
Musk is already sharing three children with the CEO of Neuralink: Arcadia, who was born in early 2024 and Twins Strider and Azure, both born in November 2021.
Also in February, author Ashley St. ClaireS claimed by X post that she had Welcomes Musk’s 13th child Five months earlier.
In addition, Musk has six children with ex -wife Justin WilsonS 51 -year -old Musk and Wilson, who married between 2000 and 2008, shared twins Vivian and GriffinBoth 20, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, all 18. Exes also share a son Nevada, who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) at 10 weeks in 2002.
Later Musk continued with GRIMES (Real name Claire Busher) in 2018 and they share three children together. They greeted the son X æ A-XII two years later in May 2020. Their daughter exa dark sideræl, followed by a year later by surrogate. Isaaxon’s book also confirmed that Musk and Grims, which split for good in 2022, also share Son Techno Mechanicus.