Elon Musk plans Tesla and Twitter collaborations with xAI, his new startup

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said connected Friday that helium plans for his newest venture, the artificial quality startup xAI, to collaborate with the automaker some connected the "silicon front" and connected the "AI bundle front."

Musk besides said, during Friday's unrecorded audio league connected Twitter Spaces, that xAI volition usage Twitter information for grooming the "maximally curious" artificial quality systems and products helium hopes to physique there. Musk did not specify whether and however overmuch Twitter volition complaint xAI oregon his different companies for its data.

When Musk led a buyout of the societal media task successful October 2022, Twitter took connected $13 cardinal successful caller debt. The institution has struggled to foodstuff its subscription revenue, and has been sued by ex-employees and vendors for non-payment for completed enactment oregon severance.

Several of the different companies wherever Musk was a laminitis oregon serves arsenic CEO, including Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Co., person done concern together for years. Some of their transactions person been disclosed successful Tesla fiscal filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

On Friday, without citing evidence, Musk alleged that "Every AI enactment connected Earth" had utilized Twitter's information for training, "in each cases illegally." It was not wide which laws would person been violated by others' information scraping. Earlier this month, Twitter sued 4 chartless parties for information scraping successful Texas.

Twitter implemented complaint limits connected the societal media level successful caller weeks because, Musk claimed, it was "being scraped similar crazy." He said, "We had aggregate entities scraping each tweet ever made, and trying to bash truthful successful like, fundamentally a span of days. So — this was bringing the strategy to its knees. So we had to instrumentality action." He apologized for the inconvenience of the complaint limiting.

In airy of wide usage of Twitter information by AI bundle developers, Musk said, "I conjecture we volition usage the nationalist tweets — evidently not thing backstage — for grooming arsenic well, conscionable similar fundamentally everyone other has."

Twitter's information acceptable appeals for "text training," and "image and video training," Musk said. However, helium specified that AI systems request much than human-created information and helium was hoping that xAI could travel successful the footsteps of Alphabet-owned DeepMind's Alpha Zero, a machine programme that achieved a masterful level of play successful 3 games, chess, shogi and go, aft grooming by playing these games against itself.

A Tesla instrumentality and promoter, Omar Qazi (known arsenic Whole Mars Catalog connected Twitter) asked Musk a fewer questions astir however helium plans for xAI to enactment with Tesla during the Spaces event. Among different things, helium asked whether xAI would perchance usage Nvidia- oregon Tesla-made silicon for information processing.

Musk said, "That's benignant of a Tesla question. Tesla is gathering customized silicon. I wouldn't telephone thing that Tesla's producing a 'GPU' though 1 tin qualify it successful GPU equivalents." He past spoke astir Tesla's in-vehicle hardware, which enables the company's precocious operator assistance systems to enactment successful its cars. The systems are marketed arsenic Autopilot and Full Self Driving capableness successful the US.

Tesla has been promising fans a robotaxi, oregon self-driving vehicle, for years. At that time, Musk said a cross-country demo with a Tesla car would beryllium imaginable without a azygous quality involution by the extremity of 2017. In 2019, Tesla raised billions of dollars with the committedness of a cardinal robotaxi-ready Tesla vehicles connected the roadworthy successful a year. So far, nary of Tesla's vehicles are susceptible of operating without a quality operator acceptable to steer oregon brake astatine immoderate time.

Musk said connected Twitter Spaces connected Friday that Tesla's hardware 4, which is shipping successful now, is "three-to-five times much susceptible than hardware 3," and promised "hardware 5" would travel on successful a fewer years and would beryllium "four oregon 5 times much capable" than its existent version.

The CEO besides discussed Dojo, a supercomputer Tesla is processing for AI instrumentality learning and machine imaginativeness grooming purposes. Tesla uses video clips and information from its customers' vehicles to amended existing software, oregon make caller features.

Musk said that the eventual AI connection exemplary that xAI volition presumably make won't beryllium "politically correct." The CEO, who has repeatedly attacked "woke" oregon progressive values, said "I deliberation our AI tin springiness answers that radical whitethorn find arguable adjacent though they are really true."

The Tesla CEO said that xAI volition request to make exertion that "understands the carnal satellite and not conscionable the Internet," and helium thinks that Tesla's driving information volition assistance it connected that front.

Walter Isaacson, the writer of an Elon Musk biography coming retired aboriginal this year, asked Musk astir Optimus, a humanoid robot Tesla is processing with the purpose of utilizing it successful manufacturing. Musk said that the robot is inactive successful its "early stages" and his squad needs to find a mode that users volition beryllium capable to easy crook it off.

Tesla showed disconnected a design for a humanoid robot called Optimus astatine its AI time successful September 2022. Tesla enforcement are expected to stock updates connected this and much connected an net telephone adjacent Wednesday.

-- CNBC's Jonathan Vanian contributed reporting.