San Francisco, Sep 30
Global investment firm Fidelity has reduce the value of its holding in Elon Musk-run X (formerly Twitter) by a massive 78.7 per cent, which implies that the X social media platform is likely valued at just $9.4 billion.
The tech billionaire had bought the social media company for $44 billion in October 2022 after an intense drama.
As per new estimate from asset manager Fidelity, X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price (at August end), reports.
The fund now values its stake in X at approximately $4.18 million. In July, Fidelity valued its shares in X at about $5.5 million.
X, Fidelity or Musk did not immediately comment on the report based on regulatory disclosures.
In May, Musk-run artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI raised $6 billion to accelerate the research and development of future technologies. In a post, the X owner said the pre-money valuation was $18 billion.
xAI, which has unveiled an AI chatbot called 'Grok', raised funds from key investors, including Fidelity Management and Research.
In January this year, the global investment firm Fidelity marked down its investment in Musk-run X Holdings (the parent company of X) by a whopping 71.5 per cent from the original value.
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