Visitor publish by Drieu Godefridi
Elon Musk, the person who defies the legal guidelines of earthly gravity and human forms, has simply struck a significant blow. On 28 March 2025, he announced that his synthetic intelligence start-up, xAI, had acquired X, the social platform previously often known as Twitter, in an all-stock deal. The figures converse for themselves: xAI is valued at 80 billion {dollars}, X at 45 billion.
Past valuations, we’re witnessing a strategic revolution, an ingenious maneuver that propels X past the attain of the European Union’s censors.
Grok, the Cognitive Revolution
Let’s begin with the details. xAI, based lower than two years in the past, has established itself as a titan of synthetic intelligence, rivaling giants comparable to OpenAI and Google DeepMind. Its flagship, Grok, is an AI of unequalled energy and lucidity.
Grok is not only a instrument; it’s a cognitive revolution, able to responding with a readability and boldness that OpenAI’s ‘woke’ fashions or Microsoft’s well mannered algorithms can solely dream of attaining. Musk himself has promoted Grok as an AI “looking for most fact,” and up to date benchmarks – February 2025, Grok 3 – affirm this: in arithmetic, science, and programming, Grok/xAI outperforms its opponents.
However again to the merger. X, purchased by Musk in 2022 for 44 billion {dollars}, has weathered various storms: falling promoting revenues, an exodus of advertisers frightened by freedom of expression, and a rollercoaster valuation. And but, with 600 million lively customers, X has grow to be an influence to be reckoned with, a “digital agora” the place the truths that the “elites” of the Western left would favor to suppress are expressed.
For months now, the European Union, armed with its Digital Services Act (DSA) and its need to suppress dissenting opinions, has been threatening X with sanctions, fines, and even an outright ban. The bureaucrats in Brussels have by no means digested Musk’s refusal to bow to their censorious injunctions.
X = Grok = Good Luck EU!
And that is the place the merger adjustments the sport. By integrating X with xAI, Musk is not only uniting two firms; he’s constructing a technological fortress. Hitting X now means hitting Grok. And Grok is not only a gadget utility; it’s an AI that’s turning into more and more integrated into the European financial system.
Corporations throughout the continent – from start-ups in Berlin to producers in Milan – are adopting its capabilities to optimize their processes, analyze their information, and compete with the American and Chinese language behemoths.
The Colossus supercomputer, put in in Memphis and powered by 100,000 GPUs (Graphics Processing Models), gives xAI with computing energy that Europe, with its growing old infrastructures which are crumbling below castrating requirements and killer taxes, can’t match.
Banning X wouldn’t solely deprive Europeans of a platform that’s important to their freedom to tell and categorical themselves however would additionally sabotage entry to an AI that could be a pillar of what stays of their financial competitiveness.
Killing X = Killing the Economic system
Let’s think about for a second that the EU, in a match of authoritarian zeal, tries to ban X. What would occur? The hundreds of thousands of X customers in Europe, and Grok customers too, are left with no discussion board for debate. However above all, the European firms that rely on Grok – and there are an increasing number of of them – are struggling a backlash. X’s information, which feeds xAI’s fashions in actual time, is not flowing. And Europe, already lagging behind the USA and China within the AI race, is sinking additional into technological and financial irrelevance.
The Eurocrats might brandish their tyrannical and arbitrary whims, however they know that such a situation is untenable. Industrialists, innovators, and residents themselves would howl on the betrayal.
Musk has pulled off a grasp stroke with this merger.
It’s not only a query of consolidating his property or defending his traders – though the maneuver, it must be famous, offers X’s collectors some respiration house after two years of strained money owed. No, it’s a declaration of battle on institutionalized censorship. X, now below the aegis of xAI, is turning into a hybrid entity: each social media and strategic AI infrastructure.
Will the EU Minimize Europe Off from the World?
So this merger is not only a monetary transaction; it’s at the start, a political act, a problem to the regulators who aspire to convey Musk down.
This stroke of genius consecrates X as an impregnable bastion of freedom of expression, boosted by an distinctive AI. This reminds us of a fact that Brussels refuses to confess: tomorrow’s world won’t be constructed by sterile technocrats however by visionaries who embrace freedom. Musk will probably be one of many architects of that world.
Between freedom and forms, freedom liberates, and forms oppresses.
Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (College Saint-Louis, College of Louvain), thinker (College Saint-Louis, College of Louvain) and PhD in authorized concept (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He’s an entrepreneur, CEO of a European personal training group and director of PAN Medias Group. He’s the writer of The Green Reich (2020).
You may comply with Drieu on X.
