Re:xAI joins SpaceX
by iceboundrock on Monday February 02, 2026 @06:49PM
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Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tesla-invested-2b-in-elon-...
We're witnessing a bailout and downloading of costs, at scale. Whether or not one buys into whatever the vision of these companies are - it's clear, there's interdealing.
Tesla theoretically now owns a chunk of xAI... whose valuation will no doubt increase due to the internalized SpaceX acquisition. Append to this a future IPO, as discussed in the artice, presumably an eventual premium of 20-50% (reasonable, 14% purely for the ibankers when this will happen)... yields to an interesting bailout situation.
To me, the real question is why. The $2B from Tesla can't possibly move the needle for any party involved in this transaction. If this were to be work 50x as opposed to a potential 50% upside (hell, make it 2x for argument's sake) it still doesn't compute. So what's the actual reason.
Re:xAI joins SpaceX
by flowerthoughts on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @01:54AM
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I don't know, but it could be long term vs short term capital injection.
He absolutely could do it, just like he did when Tesla bought SolarCity. It just isn’t as easy when one of the companies is public than when both are private.