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50 billion on one side, anticipation of business, later this year. Big bets on Artificial Intelligence.
Two of the biggest technological forces are making big bets on Artificial Intelligence (AI) — but with very different strategies.
On the same day, last Thursday, it was announced that the Amazon is in negotiations to invest 50 billion of dollars (42 billion euros) in OpenAI and the agency indicated that the SpaceX of Elon Musk is negotiating the merger with xAI, also from Elon Musk earlier than expected.
In the first case, Amazon has already signed a agreement 7-year, €31 billion cloud infrastructure project with OpenAI in November last year.
The investment “would be a big bet on the promising AI startup”, according to the newspaper.
The negotiations involve Andy Jassy, director of Amazon, and Sam Altman, director of Open AI.
In the total funding round, OpenAI is trying to raise up to 85 billion euros, with a potential valuation of around 700 billion euros.
In the second case, Elon Musk increasingly demands the interconnection of his two companies: SpaceX and xAI.
This early merger (ahead of the public offering scheduled for late 2026) would bring together Musk’s rockets, Starlink satellites, social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok.
In other words, it summarizes: SpaceX should invest in data centers in space – which could be crucial for xAI.
And a Tesla also participates in these movements: he revealed the day before, Wednesday, that he invested 1.7 billion euros in xAI. And Tesla is developing humanoid robots that, according to Musk, will be useful in his companies’ factories.
