马斯克卸任 DOGE 后旗下公司迎融资潮:xAI 股债齐发,Neuralink 也募资

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马斯克旗下的 xAI 正在启动一项 3 亿美元的股份出售计划,本次交易中公司估值达到 1130 亿美元。

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马斯克重返其商业帝国、远离政治后,其旗下公司迅速开启一系列融资,包括 xAI 正在启动一项 3 亿美元的股份出售计划,以及启动 50 亿美元债务销售。此外,脑机接口公司 Neuralink 在 E 轮融资中募集 6.5 亿美元。

xAI 股债齐发

周一,据媒体报道,马斯克旗下的 xAI 正在启动一项 3 亿美元的股份出售计划,该交易将允许员工向新投资者出售股份。本次交易中,公司估值达到 1130 亿美元。这与马斯克的 xAI 在今年 3 月份收购其社交媒体平台 X 时的价格相一致。

马斯克今年将 xAI 与其社交平台 X 合并为一家新公司,名为 XAI Holdings。3 月份的收购交易将整个集团估值定为 1130 亿美元,其中 xAI 估值为 800 亿美元,X 估值为 330 亿美元。马斯克于 2022 年 10 月以 440 亿美元收购了 X(当时的 Twitter)。

业内人士指出,这种被称为「要约收购」的二级股票出售预计随后将有一轮更大规模的融资轮,届时公司将向外部投资者发行新股。

此前 4 月媒体报道,XAI 正在与投资者洽谈,计划为其新合并的人工智能初创公司和社交媒体业务筹集约 200 亿美元的资金,凸显了市场对人工智能的热情以及马斯克的影响力。

此外,马斯克还为 xAI 启动 50 亿美元的债务销售。据媒体报道,摩根士丹利正在为 xAI 寻求债务融资,这笔资金可能有助于马斯克继续大举投资 AI 基础设施,尤其是在孟菲斯建设一座大型数据中心 Colossus。

媒体援引知情人士透露,这笔债务融资方案包括 B 类定期贷款、固定利率定期贷款和高级有担保票据。这笔资金将用于一般企业用途,承诺书的到期日为 6 月 17 日。

xAI 拒绝对上述消息发表评论。

对于将 xAI 与 X 合并为一家公司,马斯克此前表示,这个综合体将使他的两家公司能够通过整合模型、计算能力、分发渠道和人才实现协同效应。例如,AI 开发者可以更好地利用社交媒体平台的数据来训练他们的模型,并接触其用户群体。

马斯克没有进一步披露 3 月 xAI 与 X 合并交易的具体结构。有分析称,这笔不透明的交易使得 X 能够利用 xAI 不断上升的估值来获得支持。

马斯克于 2023 年创立了 xAI,以挑战 Sam Altman 的 OpenAI 以及其他大型科技公司。xAI 这家 AI 初创公司去年年底在一轮 5 亿美元的私募融资中获得了 450 亿美元的估值。马斯克去年还向支持其收购 Twitter 的投资者授予了 xAI 25% 的股份。

xAI 很快推出了 Grok 聊天机器人,并建造了 Colossus 超级计算机集群,这是美国最大的 AI 数据中心项目之一。除了与大型科技公司竞争以及 Grok 有时显得「粗犷」的形象,马斯克也签订了一些合作协议。上个月,微软宣布将 xAI 模型提供给其云计算客户,而消息应用 Telegram 也同意将 Grok 分发给其 10 亿用户。

马斯克此前 5 月 20 日曾透露,其旗下孟菲斯数据中心已经部署了 20 万个 GPU 用于训练 AI 系统,他还计划在附近另一个地点新增 100 万个 GPU。

Neuralink 筹集 6.5 亿美元

媒体报道称,马斯克还为其脑机接口公司 Neuralink 筹集了 6.5 亿美元资金,估值为 90 亿美元,估值不包括这笔新投资。

Neuralink 在上一轮融资的估值为 35 亿美元,是在 2023 年的一轮融资。

马斯克从 DOGE 回归商业帝国

马斯克此前花了数个月的时间担任特朗普的高级顾问,并经常陪同其出席活动,还曾为特朗普 2024 年总统大选提供大力支持,是其主要金主之一。马斯克在美国政府效率部(DOGE)的职务在上周结束,任职期间,他推出大规模的政府削减支出计划,不仅引发了对他个人的广泛批评,也让外界对其公司表现产生了担忧。

此次一系列融资发生在马斯克退出他在特朗普政府中负责削减行政支出的角色之后。有分析指出,马斯克似乎急于将重心重新放回自己的各项业务上。自特朗普就职以来,马斯克担任 CEO 的特斯拉公司股价已下跌 20%。

马斯克此前表示,在他的公司因与特朗普总统的联系而受到影响后,他将重新专注于自己的商业版图。马斯克上月底在 X 上写道:回到 24 小时工作模式,在会议室 / 服务器室 / 工厂里过夜。我必须全力专注于 X/xAI 和特斯拉。因为我们正处于关键技术发布的阶段。

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