Elon Musk's acquisition of X (formerly Twitter) was a strategic move to gain access to real-time data, giving his AI venture a competitive edge.Most AI companies rely on outdated datasets, while X provides a dynamic source of information with its 600 million active users.Through his AI venture, xAI, Musk is using X's data to train the Grok-3 model, outsmarting competitors in the AI industry.Musk's foresight turned a social media purchase into a data-driven weapon to challenge the dominance of OpenAI and Google in the AI race.