Apollo → xAI: $3.5B funds & debt
Apollo finances GB200 GPUs for xAI. Apollo funds lead $3.5 billion of financing to Valor Compute Infrastructure to buy $5.4 billion of Nvidia GB200 GPUs and lease them to an xAI subsidiary (triple net lease).
This deal is 6% of everything Apollo pays and 2% of everything xAI receives in this database.
- Date
- Jan 7, 2026
- Paid by
Apollo- Received by
xAI- Type
- Funds & debt
- Amount
- $3.5B
- Status
- closed
- Note
- $3.5 billion of a $5.4 billion deal
Sources
All deals between Apollo and xAI
- Oct 8, 2025 Apollo → xAI · GPU debt for Colossus 2 $12.5B
- Jan 7, 2026 Apollo → xAI · Apollo finances GB200 GPUs for xAI $3.5B
More Apollo / xAI deals
- Oct 26, 2026 Record: $40 billion for Nvidia chips $40B
- Aug 10, 2026 Nvidia and 6 lenders: $500 billion for its customers n/a
- Jun 22, 2026 Reflection AI rents GPUs on Colossus 2 for $6.3 billion $6.3B
- Jun 6, 2026 Google pays SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute $30B
- May 6, 2026 Anthropic rents Colossus 1 from SpaceX/xAI $40B
- Feb 18, 2026 HUMAIN invests $3B in xAI $3B
- Feb 2, 2026 SpaceX absorbs xAI: combined value $1.25 trillion $250B
- Jan 28, 2026 Tesla invests $2 billion in xAI $2B
- Jan 6, 2026 xAI closes $20 billion Series E $20B
- Jan 6, 2026 Cisco strategic investor in xAI's Series E n/a
- Jan 6, 2026 Nvidia strategic investor in xAI's Series E n/a
- Nov 19, 2025 xAI and HUMAIN: 500 MW data center in Saudi Arabia n/a