Elon Musk has set up a new AI company, X.AI Corp, with a view to challenging OpenAI in the artificial intelligence startup space. financial times report(opens in new window).
The CEO of Twitter and Tesla has assembled a team of AI experts, researchers and engineers for the venture, according to sources familiar with Musk’s plans. Recent hires include his two researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind. One of those researchers is scientist Igor Babushckin, who is reportedly leading the study.
The Nevada-listed company was incorporated on March 9, according to business records. Musk is reportedly listed in the documents as the sole director, with former Morgan Stanley banker and Musk’s money manager Jared Virtual serving as secretary.
Speaking of AI startups(opens in new window) It will be part of a broader plan to create all so-called apps under the brand ‘X’. Earlier this week, Musk announced that Twitter Inc had merged into a new umbrella company, X Corp, moving its headquarters from Delaware to Nevada.
Musk, who helped found OpenAI eight years ago but resigned in 2018, is now primarily critical of OpenAI and its ChatGPT software. The Tesla and SpaceX moguls recently complained that ChatGPT was too “awake” and criticized it for being “a closed-source, most profitable company that is effectively controlled by Microsoft.”and Tweet(opens in new window) In February, he hinted at another method, saying, “What you need is TruthGPT.”
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Musk also co-sponsored an open letter by tech executives and AI researchers calling for a moratorium on developing AI techniques stronger than OpenAI’s latest AI language model, GPT-4, for at least six months. . The letter criticized the prominent AI for ignoring the current harms it poses, including the exploitation of workers, theft of data, and the fake media that underpins current power structures and is concentrated in fewer hands. condemned by ethicists.
As wall street journal Note(opens in new window), Musk has an affinity for naming ventures, and progeny ‘X’. In fact, PayPal’s predecessor was called his X.com, and he calls one of his children his X.
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