Company Profile
Privately Held • X Corp: ~$12.5B - $19B / xAI: $24B+ USD
150+ Countries Worldwide

X (formerly Twitter)

Building the global digital town square and everything app for real-time conversation, media, and finance.

Acquired in October 2022, X is transitioning into an "Everything App". X provides real-time news dissemination, creator subscriptions, high-definition video broadcasting, AI search capabilities powered by xAI’s Grok, and upcoming peer-to-peer digital payments (X Money).

Company FactsPrivately Held

Founded in 2006
Bastrop, Texas, USA
Valuation: X Corp: ~$12.5B - $19B / xAI: $24B+ USD
Global Sales & Distribution Network

Sales Network & Latest Commercial Policies

Overview of countries and territories with commercial operations, direct retail footprint, and active purchase incentives.

Retail & Commercial Model

Digital Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Subscriptions & B2B Enterprise Advertising / Cloud Developer API Platform. Subscriptions are processed directly via iOS App Store, Google Play Store, Web checkout (Stripe), and developer portals (console.x.ai).

Global Territorial Reach

Global real-time public communications platform accessible in more than 150 countries across 40+ localized languages, serving over 500 million monthly active users worldwide.

Service Availability
150+ Countries Worldwide

Direct distribution, logistics clearance, and local service support.

Regional Presence & Key Countries Served

Global Digital Availability

Active Coverage

Countries / Areas: Worldwide access spanning North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Africa

Hubs & Infrastructure: 100% digital cloud delivery across mobile iOS/Android apps, desktop web, and cloud developer APIs

Latest Sales Policies, Promotions & Guarantees

Transparent Multi-Tier Subscription Structure

Tiered Pricing

Offers three consumer tiers: Basic ($3/month for small boost & edit privileges), Premium ($8/month or $84/year with 50% fewer ads, blue verification badge, and Grok AI access), and Premium+ ($16/month or $168/year with 0% ads in For You feeds and maximum reply rank).

Creator Ads Revenue Sharing Program

Creator Payouts

Verified subscribers with over 5 million organic impressions over a rolling 3-month window are eligible to receive recurring monthly direct deposits derived from ads served in replies to their posts.

xAI Grok Developer API Pay-As-You-Go Billing

Developer API

Developers can integrate Grok-2 and Grok-2 vision into third-party software via the xAI API platform with pay-per-token pricing, function calling, and promotional evaluation credit grants for validated developers.

Customer Programs & Value-Added Services

Upcoming X Money / Peer-to-Peer Transactions

Expanding into an all-in-one financial hub with money transmitter licenses secured across 35+ US states, enabling direct instant P2P payments, tipping, and merchant wallet checkouts.

Capitalization & Equity Structure

Stock Information & Financial Profile

Market valuation, public stock ticker / private secondary status, ownership structure, and top institutional investors.

Investor Relations Portal
Public / Private Status
Privately Held

Privately held corporate entity

Stock Ticker / Market
Private (Unlisted)

Private Equity / Venture Consortium

Market Cap / Valuation
X Corp: ~$12.5B - $19B / xAI: $24B+ USD

Latest market pricing assessment

Founding Capital / Milestones
Twitter originally conducted an IPO on the NYSE (ticker: TWTR) in November 2013; taken private by Elon Musk on October 27, 2022 for $54.20 per share ($44 billion).

Valuation Context & Market Standing

Privatized by Elon Musk in October 2022 for $44 billion. Financial institutions evaluate X Corp equity between $12.5B–$19B. Sister venture xAI was valued at $24B following a $6B Series B funding round in mid-2024.

Elon Musk & Equity Ownership

Elon Musk holds the majority controlling stake in X Corp. Alongside prominent co-investors including global investment institutions, family offices, and tech venture capital funds.

Key Institutional Shareholders & Venture Partners

Elon Musk (Controlling Shareholder)
Kingdom Holding Company (Prince Alwaleed bin Talal)
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Sequoia Capital
Fidelity Investments
Vy Capital
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Tribe Capital
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Primary Products & Key Projects

Factual summaries, categories, and technical parameters for X (formerly Twitter).

3 Products
Social Media & Communications

X Everything App

Active Operation

X provides a public forum for text, image, and high-bitrate video sharing. Subscribed members receive algorithmic prioritization, edit privileges, extended post length, and native integration with xAI’s Grok assistant.

Factual Specifications
Active Users:500M+ monthly active users
Features:Spaces live audio, Articles, HD Video, Grok AI
Monetization:Creator Revenue Share & Subscriptions
Factual Data SheetOfficial Website
Embedded AI Assistant

Grok Assistant on X

Active Operation

Grok is directly integrated into X, giving subscribers instant summaries of breaking news trends, real-time citation of user posts, image generation, and intelligent search capabilities across platform archives.

Factual Specifications
Model Backend:xAI Grok 2 / Grok 3
Integration:X Search tab, inline post summaries, image creation
Availability:X Premium & Premium+ subscribers
Factual Data SheetOfficial Website
Peer-to-Peer Financial Services

X Payments (X Money)

In Development

X Payments LLC has secured money transmitter licenses across dozens of US states. The service is designed to enable instant user-to-user funds transfers, merchant transactions, and stored balance wallets.

Factual Specifications
US Licensing:Money Transmitter Licenses in 35+ states
Core Function:Instant P2P payments & balance transfer
Security:Multi-factor authentication & bank-grade encryption
Factual Data SheetOfficial Website

Verified Updates for X (formerly Twitter)

xAI Launches Enterprise Developer API for Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini with Native Vision & Function Calling

xAI launched its enterprise REST developer API for Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini via console.x.ai. The API supports vision analysis, tool calling, JSON mode, and real-time knowledge grounding from the X platform.

xAI Brings 100k Liquid-Cooled H100 "Colossus" Supercluster Online in Record 122 Days

xAI officially brought its "Colossus" supercomputer cluster online in Memphis, Tennessee, powered by 100,000 liquid-cooled NVIDIA H100 GPUs interconnected on a single RDMA fabric. Constructed from initial contract to active power in just 122 days, Colossus represents the world’s most powerful single-facility AI training cluster, designated to train next-generation Grok-3 frontier models.

xAI Launches Frontier Model Family Grok-2 & Grok-2 Mini with Native Image Generation and Developer API

xAI released its next-generation frontier intelligence models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, showcasing significant advances in reasoning, coding, and competitive benchmark accuracy. The models introduce real-time image generation and comprehension across the X platform alongside the public launch of the xAI enterprise developer REST API platform.

xAI Expands Memphis Colossus Compute Cluster Toward 200,000 GPUs for Grok-3

xAI commenced phase-two hardware expansion of its "Colossus" AI supercomputer datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee, doubling high-bandwidth GPU capacity to 200,000 accelerators to train next-generation multimodal Grok-3 reasoning models.

X Payments Secures 38 State Money Transmitter Licenses & Launches In-App P2P Wallet Beta

X Payments achieved regulatory approval across 38 US states and rolled out an initial closed beta for peer-to-peer money transfers, creator tipping, and integrated checkout within the X platform ecosystem.

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