Business tycoon Elon Musk plans to talk with the board of Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) about possibly investing $5 billion in his artificial intelligence startup xAI.
What Happened: Earlier this week, Musk gave his 191 million X followers a chance to weigh in on the possible expenditure by placing a yes-no survey on the platform on Tuesday.
"Should Tesla invest $5B into xAI, assuming the valuation is set by several credible outside investors?" Musk asked.
He also wrote "Board approval & shareholder vote are needed, so this is just to test the waters" in parentheses.
About 67.9% of 958,086 voters approved the idea by the next day. And Musk indicated that he plans to discuss the heavy investment with his seven fellow Tesla board members.
"Looks like the public is in favor. Will discuss with Tesla board," he wrote on X.
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Why It Matters: Musk continues to blur the line between all the entities he owns.
Musk, Tesla's largest shareholder, previously sold large blocks of the EV stock to help finance his $44-billion purchase of X, back when it did business as Twitter.
The billionaire founded xAI last year in an effort to compete with Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) AI tech as well as OpenAI producer ChatGPT and its corporate backer, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT).
The xAI startup raised $6 billion in a series B funding in May, giving it a post-money valuation of $24 billion.
Price Action: Tesla has risen 3.69% to $223.95 as of Thursday's late-afternoon trading, while exchange-traded funds that hold Tesla stock also made gains, some leaping nearly 8%.
- T-Rex 2X Long Tesla Daily Target ETF (NASDAQ:TSLT) jumped 7.83%.
- Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (NASADQ: TSLL) gained 7.87%.
- Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:XLY) edged up 0.77%.
- Direxion Daily Concentrated Qs Bull 2X Shares (NASDAQ:QQQU) moved up 0.20%.
- Direxion Daily Consumer Discretionary Bull 3X Shares (NYSE:WANT) gained 0.64%.
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商業大亨埃隆·馬斯克計劃與特斯拉股份有限公司（納斯達克：TSLA）董事會就在其人工智能初創公司xAI中可能投資50億美元進行討論。
發生了什麼：本週早些時候，馬斯克在週二將一份有無調查發佈到該平台上，爲他的19100萬名關注者提供了權衡可能開支的機會。
“特斯拉是否應投資50億美元到xAI中，假設其估值由幾家可信的外部投資者確定？”馬斯克問道。
他還在括號內寫道：“需要董事會批准和股東投票，這只是試水。”
截至第二天，958,086名投票者中有約67.9%贊同這個想法。馬斯克表示，他計劃與其他七個特斯拉董事成員討論這項重大投資。
他在X上寫道：“看起來大衆是贊成的。將與特斯拉董事會討論。”
同時閱讀：在埃隆·馬斯克和吉姆·法利的團隊未能安撫投資者之後，特斯拉、福特、通用汽車和其他汽車製造商在盤前交易中下跌
馬斯克繼續模糊他所擁有的所有實體之間的界限。
作爲特斯拉最大的股東，馬斯克此前曾大量出售EV股票以幫助融資44億美元的X的收購，當時X還以Twitter爲業務。
這位億萬富翁去年創辦了xAI，以與Alphabet Inc.（納斯達克：GOOG）的人工智能技術以及OpAI生產者ChatGPt及其公司背後的微軟公司（NASDAQ：MSFT）競爭。
xAI於5月份進行B輪融資，籌集了60億美元，估值後爲240億美元。
價格行情：在週四的午後交易中，特斯拉股價上漲3.69美元，至223.95美元，而持有特斯拉股票的交易所交易基金也獲得了收益，有些甚至飆升了近8%。
- t-Rex 2倍做多特斯拉日報收益目標ETF（納斯達克：TSLT）上漲7.83%。
- Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (NASADQ: TSLL)收益7.87%。
- 非必需消費類etf-spdr微升0.77%。
- Direxion Daily Concentrated Qs Bull 2X Shares (NASDAQ:QQQU)微漲0.20%。
- Direxion Daily Consumer Discretionary Bull 3X Shares (NYSE:WANT)收益0.64%。
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