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On 2 February 2026 SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal. A memo to employees put the combined company at $1.25 trillion, and LSEG data showed it to be the largest merger on record. The AI unit was renamed SpaceXAI in July 2026.
On 12 August 2025 the AI startup Perplexity made a $34.5 billion all-cash bid to buy Google's Chrome browser, presenting the sale as a remedy for Google's antitrust litigation and pledging to keep Chromium open source.
On 21 May 2025 OpenAI announced it was acquiring io, the AI hardware startup founded by designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valuing io at about $6.5 billion and putting Ive in charge of OpenAI's hardware and design work.
On 28 March 2025 Elon Musk announced that his AI company xAI had acquired X Corp., the owner of the X social network, in an all-stock deal that valued X at $33 billion and xAI at $80 billion.
On 18 January 2025, Perplexity submitted a bid to merge with TikTok's US business, proposing a combined entity rather than an acquisition in an attempt to work around ByteDance's refusal to sell, one day before a US ban was due to take effect.
On 21 December 2021 Hugging Face acquired Gradio, a Python library for building web demos of machine-learning models that Abubakar Abid had started in 2019 and that had been used to build more than 300,000 demos.
In June 2021 Hyundai Motor Group completed its purchase of a controlling 80 percent stake in Boston Dynamics from SoftBank, in a deal that valued the robot maker at US$1.1 billion.
On 7 December 2020, Aurora announced it was acquiring Uber's self-driving unit, the Advanced Technologies Group, with Uber investing 400 million dollars in Aurora and its chief executive joining Aurora's board.
On 9 June 2017 SoftBank Group announced that a subsidiary had agreed to buy Boston Dynamics from Alphabet, together with the Japanese bipedal-robotics company Schaft. The terms were not disclosed.
In December 2013 Google confirmed it had completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the eighth robotics company it had bought in six months, as part of a robotics effort led by Andy Rubin.
In April 2010 Apple bought Siri, a San Jose start-up whose app answered spoken requests on the iPhone; the deal, reported by The New York Times, put voice-driven assistance on the path to becoming a built-in phone feature.
