Elon Musk launches long-awaited AI start-up in a bid to rival ChatGPT
Elon Musk has launched his long-awaited synthetic intelligence start-up xAI in a bid to construct an alternative choice to ChatGPT.
The Twitter proprietor has introduced in a staff of engineers from different tech corporations he’s hoping to problem within the artificial intelligence sphere.
Musk has warned for months about AI’s potential for “civilisational destruction”, arguing {that a} race amongst corporations akin to Google and Microsoft to develop the expertise needs to be stopped to permit time for rules on the tech to be drawn up.
The motive for the launch of xAI is “to understand the true nature of the universe”, mentioned Musk, who additionally co-founded OpenAI however later left the start-up credited with sparking the generative AI frenzy.
Dan Hendrycks, who serves because the director of the Center for AI Safety, a non-profit that goals to cut back the dangers posed by the expertise, shall be an adviser to the brand new firm.
The start-up’s staff consists of a number of former engineers and scientists from Alphabet-owned Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
“We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar… GPT-3.5, and GPT-4,” the start-up mentioned on its web site.
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The firm, which is on the lookout for skilled engineers and researchers to affix its staff as technical workers within the Bay Area, will maintain a Twitter Spaces occasion on 14 July.
Musk’s start-up will work carefully along with his different corporations together with Twitter and Tesla, in keeping with the web site.
Tesla shares confirmed little response to the news and had been buying and selling 1.5% greater, an indication that buyers weren’t apprehensive the
start-up shall be a possible distraction for Musk.
In March, the billionaire registered a agency named X.AI Corp, included in Nevada, in keeping with a state submitting.
The agency lists Musk as the only director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s household workplace, as a secretary.
The Financial Times reported in April that Musk had secured 1000’s of high-powered GPU processors from Nvidia for the challenge.