In another move that signals a?u-turn?by?Elon Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of Twitter, the world's richest person on Wednesday night announced his new artificial intelligence company,?xAI.
Elon Musk tweeted that the goal of his new AI company is to ¡°understand the true nature of the universe.¡± According to the company¡¯s website, Musk and his team will share more information in a live Twitter Spaces chat on Friday.
Team members behind xAI are alumni of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, 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 positioning xAI to compete with companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which are behind leading chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude, as per a CNBC report.
News of the startup was previously reported by the Financial Times in April this year, along with reports that?Elon Musk?had secured thousands of GPU processors from Nvidia in order to power a potential large language model.
That same month, Musk shared details of his plans for a new AI tool called "TruthGPT", adding that he feared existing AI companies were prioritising systems that were "politically correct."
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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 letter in May signed by tech leaders claiming that ¡°mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.¡±
The?letter received pushback from many academics and ethicists who held the belief that too much focus on AI¡¯s growing power and its future threats distracts from the real-life harms that some algorithms cause to marginalised communities right now rather than in an unspecified future.??
According to Greg Yang, co-founder of Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, the company will delve into the ¡°mathematics of deep learning,¡± a facet of AI, and ¡°develop the ¡®theory of everything¡¯ for large neural networks¡± to take AI ¡°to the next level,¡± as the report mentioned.
Musk reportedly incorporated 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 separation from X Corp., adding that it will ¡°work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.¡±
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