Elon Musk has never liked Tesla being identified as purely a carmaker — and now he could distance the company even further from its automobile heritage with a deal to invest in his AI startup xAI. Why it matters: Musk is proposing that Tesla help back xAI,

Elon Musk clarified on social media that he does not support a merger between Tesla and his artificial intelligence company, xAI.

Tesla Inc. plans to poll shareholders on whether to invest in xAI, Elon Musk said after the Wall Street Journal reported SpaceX was prepared to funnel $2 billion into the Grok chatbot developer.