Elon Musk, who has recently expressed vehement opposition to artificial intelligence, seems to be preparing something in this field.
The new artificial intelligence company X.AI Corp. has been linked to Musk by both the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
Microsoft-supported OpenAI, Elon Musk launched an AI firm
The sources have seen a state file from last month that lists Musk as the sole director and Jared Birchall, his family’s office director, as the secretary of the new Nevada-incorporated firm.
X.AI has approved the sale of 100 million shares for the privately held business.
Musk wants to establish an AI company to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot.
The multi-company leader has lately rebranded Twitter, Inc. as X Corp. because of his well-known affection for the letter X.
Musk is no stranger to artificial intelligence ventures. He co-founded OpenAI with a few others before leaving the company around ten years ago.
However, following ChatGPT’s explosive growth in popularity, Musk pushed for its regulation and penned an open letter urging tech executives to halt ChatGPT’s development for a period of six months.
Musk thinks ChatGPT is slanted politically and that he is working to create truth-seeking AI algorithms.
Musk once commented on the risk of training AI to be woke.
It is currently unknown whether Musk intends to develop a serious competitor to ChatGPT with X.AI Corp.
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X.AI: Clues from Previous Reports and Latest Developments
While information is still scarce, previous stories offer clues as to the status of Musk’s AI goals.
He is said to have hired two ex-DeepMind researchers in March, including scientist Igor Babuschkin, who is in charge of the new project.lso, 10,000 GPUs were purportedly purchased by Musk for AI research at one of Twitter’s data centers.
In addition, The Times reports that he has started talking to investors about funding for his new company to compete with Tesla and SpaceX.
Musk is the only listed director for the firm, which was incorporated in Nevada, Texas. Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, serves as secretary.
Ironically, Musk was the one who initially put $100 million into OpenAI before leaving the organization.
The terms ChatGPT and GPT-4 have gained popularity recently all around the world.
In an open letter published in March, a number of leading businessmen and AI researchers—among them, Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak—asked all AI labs to immediately stop training any AI systems more potent than GPT-4 for at least six months.
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