PANews reported on July 12 that according to Jinshi, citing the Financial Times, Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is preparing for a new round of financing, and the company's valuation may be as high as $200 billion, a 10-fold increase from the beginning of last year. The financing is under discussion and may be officially launched as early as next month. This will be the company's third large-scale stock offering in less than two months. The company raised $10 billion through loans and cash investments in July and sold $300 million in shares through a secondary stock offering in June. The deal will also consolidate the rapid rise in xAI's valuation. In May 2024, xAI was valued at $18 billion in the "B round" financing.



US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday during Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom. The United States and the United Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to jointly develop artificial intelligence, nuclear energy, telecommunications and quantum computing for a wide range of uses including space travel, military defense, targeted biomedical drugs and medical procedures.The MOU, which is not legally binding and changes no existing agreements between the two countries, proposes joint research initiatives between a host of government departments and agencies in both countries to study these emerging technologies.The two countries will form a task group to develop quantum computing hardware, software, algorithms and interoperability standards, according to the MOU.Read more