{"id":6573,"date":"2025-09-05T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/tesla-shareholders-to-vote-on-investing-in-musks-ai-startup-xai\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:44:15","slug":"tesla-shareholders-to-vote-on-investing-in-musks-ai-startup-xai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/tesla-shareholders-to-vote-on-investing-in-musks-ai-startup-xai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk\u2019s AI startup xAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla shareholders will soon vote whether to let the electric vehicle maker invest in Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI startup xAI, a proposal pitched as a way to strengthen Tesla&rsquo;s ambitions in AI, robotics, and energy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listed in Tesla&rsquo;s proxy statement alongside a company-backed push to raise Musk&rsquo;s 10-year pay package to $1 trillion, the proposal comes from Stephen Hawk, a Florida shareholder with a $2,000 stake of common stock. His supporting statement reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" readability=\"12\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla&rsquo;s integration of Grok into its vehicles demonstrates the tangible benefits of collaboration with xAI. As Tesla pivots toward AI-driven technologies, including Full Self-Driving and robotics, a strategic investment in xAI would secure access to advanced AI capabilities, enhance product innovation, and drive shareholder value.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board, which often suggests investors vote against shareholder proposals, is neutral on this one.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Tesla does end up investing in xAI, it would be the second of Musk&rsquo;s companies to do so. SpaceX, Musk&rsquo;s aerospace company, has committed to investing $2 billion in xAI as part of a $5 billion equity raise. Analysts have speculated that SpaceX&rsquo;s involvement in xAI could signal the AI firm is having trouble raising from outside investors.&nbsp;(Musk also merged X, the company formerly known as Twitter, with xAI earlier this year.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Tesla shareholders have argued that xAI is a rival to Tesla, since Musk has often described his EV company as an AI company. Last year, shareholders sued Musk and the company for allowing Musk to startup a rival AI firm, but the case was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hawk&rsquo;s proposal comes as Tesla grapples with weakening EV sales and a lackluster robotaxi rollout. The company has attempted to direct investor attention away from those headwinds and towards Tesla&rsquo;s AI efforts, which center on testing and deploying autonomous vehicles and Optimus, its humanoid robot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk has argued that he requires more of a controlling stake in Tesla to lead the company&rsquo;s AI efforts, rather than get distracted by his other AI company. Alongside the proposal to invest in xAI, shareholders will vote on a Tesla-backed 10-year compensation plan for Musk that could give him more than 25% control.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\" readability=\"5.3\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\" readability=\"24.75\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">San Francisco<\/span><br>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">October 27-29, 2025<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The filing comes as Tesla continues to appeal a Delaware judge&rsquo;s decision to strike down Musk&rsquo;s earlier $56 billion pay package. The new plan would tie Musk&rsquo;s compensation to ambitious benchmarks, including boosting Tesla&rsquo;s market value from about $1 trillion today to more than $8 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;Tesla&rsquo;s not going to get to $8 trillion market cap based on FSD and robotaxi. To get to that $8 trillion, you kind of need xAI,&rdquo; Gene Munster, &nbsp;managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management, told TechCrunch. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re talking numbers that have historically been inconceivable. To get to those, we need things to happen that are inconceivable right now. And one of them is humanoid robots everywhere; that&rsquo;s probably the biggest lever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investor noted that xAI could help Tesla reach that market cap in several ways. <\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;Just the excitement around xAI and Tesla together is going to move Tesla&rsquo;s valuation higher,&rdquo; he said, adding that potential returns from that investment and access to xAI&rsquo;s resources, like compute, could help boost shareholder value and Tesla&rsquo;s own AI ambitions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tesla&rsquo;s shareholder vote is scheduled for November 6 at 3pm central time at Tesla&rsquo;s Gigafactory Texas, and will stream live here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk&rsquo;s AI startup xAI<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla shareholders will soon vote whether to let the electric vehicle maker invest in Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI startup xAI, a proposal pitched as a way to strengthen Tesla&rsquo;s ambitions in AI, robotics, and energy.&nbsp; Listed in Tesla&rsquo;s proxy statement alongside a company-backed push to raise Musk&rsquo;s 10-year pay package to $1 trillion, the proposal comes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/tesla-shareholders-to-vote-on-investing-in-musks-ai-startup-xai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk\u2019s AI startup xAI&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}