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xAI

AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Etched

Etched designs Sohu, a transformer-only ASIC chip built to accelerate AI inference workloads more efficiently than general-purpose GPUs like Nvidia's.

6 Pulse stories
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xAI

xAI is Elon Musk's AI lab building the Grok family of frontier large language models and AI infrastructure.

13 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$800M
$45B
EtchedxAI
Last Valuation
$10.3B
$230B
EtchedxAI
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2022
Founded
2023
San Jose, California
HQ
Palo Alto, California
Private
Status
Private
Etched investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen HorowitzJane StreetSK HynixStripesPeter Thiel/Thiel CapitalPrimary Venture PartnersPositive Sum Ventures
xAI investors
NvidiaCiscoFidelity Management & ResearchValor Equity PartnersQatar Investment AuthorityMGXBaron Capital GroupStepstone Group

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Etched and xAI.

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