Elon Musk Announces A New AI Company
Called xAI, it has already received funding for around 20 billion dollars.
Elon Musk announced via Twitter the formation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence.
The company, called xAI, unveiled a website and a team of a dozen staffers. According to the website, the new company will be led by Musk and “will work closely with Twitter, Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.”
xAI has already received funding for around 20 billion dollars, which it will use to build its version of Artificial General Intelligence, or Agi, the next generation of AI that promises to be indistinguishable from humans, capable of understanding the world and respond contextually, as a real user would do.
Musk announced the new company months after he warned in an interview that he thinks AI could cause “civilization destruction” and joined other tech leaders in calling for a pause in an “out of control” AI race. Now he seems to have changed his mind. “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” the website states, echoing language Musk has used before to describe his AI ambitions.
In an April interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk teased plans for his new AI venture. “We’re going to start something which I call TruthGPT,” he said, describing it as a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that “cares about understanding the universe.”
Musk was an early supporter of ChatGPT-creator OpenAI, but later expressed concerns about the company implementing safeguards to prevent the viral chatbot from generating biased or sexist responses.
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Called xAI, it has already received funding for around 20 billion dollars.
Elon Musk announced via Twitter the formation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence.
The company, called xAI, unveiled a website and a team of a dozen staffers. According to the website, the new company will be led by Musk and “will work closely with Twitter, Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.”
xAI has already received funding for around 20 billion dollars, which it will use to build its version of Artificial General Intelligence, or Agi, the next generation of AI that promises to be indistinguishable from humans, capable of understanding the world and respond contextually, as a real user would do.
Musk announced the new company months after he warned in an interview that he thinks AI could cause “civilization destruction” and joined other tech leaders in calling for a pause in an “out of control” AI race. Now he seems to have changed his mind. “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” the website states, echoing language Musk has used before to describe his AI ambitions.
In an April interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk teased plans for his new AI venture. “We’re going to start something which I call TruthGPT,” he said, describing it as a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that “cares about understanding the universe.”
Musk was an early supporter of ChatGPT-creator OpenAI, but later expressed concerns about the company implementing safeguards to prevent the viral chatbot from generating biased or sexist responses.
