Elon Musk’s xAI is preparing to raise more money from investors in a deal that could value the artificial intelligence company as high as $200bn — 10 times its value early last year, according to people close to the talks.

Elon Musk's xAI is preparing to raise more money from investors in a deal that could value the artificial-intelligence company between $170 billion and $200 billion, the Financial Times reported on Friday,

According to the Financial Times, xAI plans to spend $18 billion on expanding its compute infrastructure. The company trains its models using a supercomputer called Colossus that is located in Memphis. Earlier this year, Musk stated that xAI plans to increase the number of graphics cards in the system from 200,000 to 1 million.