Elon Musk launches his new company, xAI

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and proprietor of Twitter, connected Wednesday announced the debut of a caller AI company, xAI, with the extremity to "understand the existent quality of the universe." According to the company's website, Musk and his squad volition stock much accusation successful a unrecorded Twitter Spaces chat connected Friday.

Team members down xAI are alumni of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research and Tesla, according to the company's website, and person worked connected projects including DeepMind's AlphaCode and OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 chatbots. Musk seems to beryllium positioning xAI to vie with companies similar OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, which are down starring chatbots similar ChatGPT, Bard and Claude.

News of the startup was antecedently reported by The Financial Times in April, on with reports that Musk had secured thousands of GPU processors from Nvidia successful bid to powerfulness a imaginable ample connection model. That aforesaid month, Musk shared details of his plans for a caller AI instrumentality called "TruthGPT" during a taped interrogation connected Fox News Channel, adding that helium feared existing AI companies are prioritizing systems that are "politically correct."

The AI startup's advisor volition beryllium Dan Hendrycks, enforcement manager of the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that published a missive successful May signed by tech leaders claiming that "mitigating the hazard of extinction from AI should beryllium a planetary precedence alongside different societal-scale risks specified arsenic pandemics and atomic war." The missive received pushback from galore academics and ethicists of the content that excessively overmuch absorption connected AI's increasing powerfulness and its aboriginal threats distracts from real-life harms that immoderate algorithms origin to marginalized communities close now, alternatively than successful an unspecified future.

Musk reportedly incorporated xAI successful Nevada successful March. Previously, helium had changed the sanction of Twitter to "X Corp" successful immoderate fiscal filings, but connected xAI's website, the institution notes its separation from X Corp, adding that it volition "work intimately with X (Twitter), Tesla, and different companies to marque advancement towards our mission."

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