Elon Musk launches X.Ai.
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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of Twitter, on Wednesday announced the debut of a new artificial intelligence company, xAI, with the object to “understand the true nature of the universe.” According to the company’s website, Musk and his team will share more info in a live Twitter Spaces chat on Friday.
Team members behind xAI are alumni of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Analysis, Microsoft Research, Twitter and Tesla, and have worked on projects including DeepMind’s AlphaCode and OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 chatbots. Musk seems to be feeling xAI to compete with companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, which are behind leading chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard and Claude.
Advice of the startup was previously reported by the Financial Times in April, along with reports that Musk had secured thousands of GPU processors from Nvidia in organization to power a potential large language model. That same month, Musk shared details of his plans for a new AI way called “TruthGPT” during a taped interview on Fox News Channel, adding that he feared existing AI companies are prioritizing approaches that are “politically correct.”
One of the AI startup’s advisors will be Dan Hendrycks, executive director of the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that published a inscribe in May signed by tech leaders claiming that “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale jeopardizes such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
The letter received pushback from many academics and ethicists of the belief that too much blurred on AI’s growing power and its future threats distracts from real-life harms that some algorithms cause to marginalized communities reason now, rather than in an unspecified future.
According to Greg Yang, co-founder of xAI, the startup will delve into the “mathematics of preoccupied learning,” a facet of AI, and “develop the ‘theory of everything’ for large neural networks” to take AI “to the next level.”
Musk reportedly comprised xAI in Nevada in March. Previously, he had changed the name of Twitter to “X Corp.” in some financial filings, but on xAI’s website, the company notes its division from X Corp., adding that it will “work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to publish progress towards our mission.”