May 28 (Reuters) - Cathie Wood's Ark Investment

Management had purchased a stake in xAI, Elon Musk's artificial

intelligence startup with a post-money valuation of $24 billion,

Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

The stake represents about 2% of the fund's holdings,

according to Ark Chief Futurist Brett Winton in an interview to

Bloomberg, which added that Ark Venture Fund revealed the stake

in an email to clients.

Musk's xAI announced on Monday it had raised $6 billion in

series B funding, backed by investors including Andreessen

Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

The stake purchase comes after the venture fund disclosed a

position in OpenAI accounting for about 4% of its holdings,

according to the report, adding that Ark also has a stake in

artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, that made up around

5% of its assets.

Ark Investment Management did not immediately respond to a

Reuters' request for comment, while xAI could not be reached for

comment.