Elon Musk startup X-A-I now valued at $24 billion after raising $6 billion in a fresh round of funding.

Deirdrebosa is looking at some of the investors backing the tech billionaire in today's tech check.

Morning, D.

Hey, good morning, Carl. So call them the Musk insiders.

As the Musk Universe expands, a loyal group is emerging,

and they're investors that are able to look past losses, reputational risk.

They continue to invest in his ventures.

Sequoy Capital Andresen Horwitz, they were both part of the X- AI $6 billion round.

They also chipped in 800 million and 400 million respectively for Musk's Twitter acquisition in

2022.

Now back then Ben Horowitz tweeted, we invested because we believe in the co-founder,

Evan Jack's vision to connect the world and we believe in

Elon's brilliance to finally make it what it was meant to be. Since that

tweet the company formerly known as Twitter has lost billions of dollars in

value but two years in in venture capital that's Twitter has lost billions of dollars in value.

But two years in, in venture capital,

that's a relatively short amount of time.

And the attitude towards failure here,

it's generally far more accepting

compared to many other business environments.

A CEO source operating in AI tells me that the ex-AI research team is stellar

and Musk will have access to special data sets with Twitter and Tesla. Now the more interesting

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