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Speaker 2: All right, let's stay with the tech space and move

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Speaker 2: over to Xai, which is Elon Musk's ai startup. It's

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Speaker 2: raising more financing than initially planned, and Ed Ludlow, our

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Speaker 2: give us a little more context here. Xai is backed

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Speaker 3: Tell us how much money it's raising.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So it's a very specific mechanism where a special

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Speaker 4: purpose vehicle will split between about twelve and a half

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Speaker 4: buys specifically in video GPUs. Xai then basically rents or

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Speaker 4: the news that Nvidia is going to contribute about two

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Speaker 5: A new administration had a lot of industry saying, hey,

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Speaker 5: So, Matt, my FCC they meet I think sometime this month.

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Speaker 5: Are they going to loosen TV ownership rules?

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Speaker 10: So look, this is this is a very seasoned management team.

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Speaker 5: Let's get back to the market here, the auto business

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Speaker 5: Global autos and Industrials research analysts. So let's start with

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it seems like it never It seems like it's

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Speaker 8: China is not new, It's not new to them. Everybody,

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