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SpaceX (SPCX) closes up 19% on its first trading day — the largest IPO in history debuts strong, setting the comparable for Anthropic and OpenAI
SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq under SPCX on June 12, 2026. Shares opened at $150 (above the $135 IPO price), peaked at $176.52 intraday (+31%), and closed at $160.95 — up 19% from the offer. Market cap ~$1.77 trillion; ~$75 billion raised, the largest IPO ever. Because xAI sits inside SpaceX, public investors now hold the first frontier-AI-lab exposure in a public company. The strong debut is a constructive pricing signal for the Anthropic and OpenAI listings expected later in 2026 — though same-week regulatory news complicates the read.
Read story →SpaceX prices IPO today at $1.75T — including xAI, the largest IPO in market history; Nasdaq listing tomorrow
SpaceX prices its IPO after market close on June 11, 2026 at $135/share — implying a ~$1.75 trillion valuation. The offering raises ~$75 billion. Listing on Nasdaq tomorrow, June 12, under ticker SPCX. xAI was merged into SpaceX in February 2026 in an all-stock buyout at $250B valuation. Investor demand reportedly hit $150 billion — 2× the raise. 30% of the issue (~$22.5B) allocated to retail — triple the industry norm. The largest IPO in market history; first frontier AI lab (xAI/Grok) to be inside a public company.
Read story →xAI enters the coding agent race — Grok Build ships in early beta with 8 parallel agents and Arena Mode
xAI dropped Grok Build, its first CLI coding agent, in early beta during early May 2026. The product runs up to 8 parallel sub-agents simultaneously, ships an automated 'Arena Mode' that scores competing outputs, and runs local-first (code never leaves the developer's machine). The underlying model — grok-code-fast-1 — scores 70.8% on SWE-Bench Verified at $0.20 input / $1.50 output per million tokens. Here's where Grok Build fits in the Claude Code / Codex / Cursor landscape, and where it falls short.
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