Elon Musk launches new AI firm to ‘perceive the true nature of the universe’

For months, Elon Musk has been leaving a path of breadcrumbs pointing towards a much bigger AI challenge on the horizon and at present that challenge was formally introduced. 

xAI is a brand new firm, led by Musk, that seeks to “perceive the true nature of the universe,” based on the discharge posted on the firm’s web site.

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The discharge shared the names of a dozen xAI workforce members, together with former workers of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Analysis, Microsoft Analysis, Tesla, and the College of Toronto. The record additionally consists of engineers Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, who Musk employed in early March. 

xAI is a separate firm from X Corp, the corporate Twitter merged into in April. Nonetheless, the discharge notes that the brand new AI firm will work carefully with Twitter and Tesla, amongst different firms, “to make progress in direction of our mission.” 

At the moment’s announcement follows a collection of strikes that steered a serious AI challenge within the making, together with state filings in April which revealed that Musk had created a brand new AI firm. 

In April, Musk additionally shared his intention to create a brand new AI mannequin referred to as TruthGPT. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Musk described the brand new mannequin as a “most truth-seeking AI that tries to know the character of the universe,” wording that mirrored the press launch’s description of xAI. 

Musk additionally bought 10,000 GPUs for Twitter, that are essential for machine-learning fashions and, once more, demonstrated the existence of a challenge like xAI. 

Regardless of all of Musk’s work towards constructing this firm, the announcement got here at an fascinating time as Musk signed a petition to halt additional AI developments on the finish of March and has spoken brazenly in regards to the risks of AI. 

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This is not Musk’s first AI endeavor; he was an investor in OpenAI when it was based in 2015. Now xAI is positioning itself to compete straight with OpenAI in addition to different giants within the trade. 

In response to the xAI website, Musk and the workforce will reply questions in regards to the new firm through a Twitter Areas chat on Friday, July 14.