India, Sept. 29 -- Launched in 2023, xAI aims to push artificial intelligence beyond chatbots, building reasoning models capable of solving scientific problems, advancing human knowledge, and powering applications across text, images, and search. Ambitious indeed. Perhaps some of the greatest inventions begin with audacity.

For instance, xAI's flagship product, Grok, is integrated into Elon Musk's social platform X, competing directly with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. xAI is also working on multimodal AI, text-to-image models, and advanced search, with a team that includes alumni from DeepMind and OpenAI.

Going by media chatter, reports claimed that xAI was raising USD 10 billion at a USD 200 billion valuation, one of the large...