I mean, that's a startup backed by the richest man in the world who also was engaged with OpenAI in the beginning.

I assume startup here means the average one, that has a little bit less of funding and connections.

The richest man in the world, who could also divert the world's biggest GPU order from his other company

so is Meta(fb) and Apple but that doesn't seem to be the case

money is "less" important factor, I don't say they don't matters but much less than you would think

xAI isn’t young. The brand, maybe. Not the actual history / timeline. Tesla was working on AI long ago.

xAI was just spun out to raise more money / fix the x finance issues.

Most startups don't have Elon Musk's money.