xAI is coming: Elon Musk pronounces his new AI enterprise

On twelfth July (native time), billionaire and Tesla chief Elon Musk introduced the formation of a brand new firm targeted on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Musk had been hinting at constructing a rival to ChatGPT for a very long time. The firm has been named xAI and has a staff of a dozen of employees members on its web site, with Musk because the chief.

Announcing formation of @xAI to know actuality

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2023

According to the web site, xAI’s major objective is to know the true nature of the universe. The staff members of the newly shaped AI firm have labored with a number of firms like DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively, they’ve contributed to a number of initiatives, together with Adam Optimizer, Batch Normalisation, Layer Normalisation and the invention of adversarial examples.

Furthermore, the corporate has labored on introducing modern strategies and analyses, together with Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, and μTransfer. The staff members have expertise within the growth of AI initiatives, together with  AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.

Notably, Musk was an early backer of ChatGPT-creator OpenAI. However, later he criticised the corporate for inputting safeguards to stop the chatbot from producing biased or sexist responses. In December 2022, he tweeted, “The danger of training AI to be woke – in other words, lie – is deadly” whereas responding to a Twitter consumer who had requested OpenAI’s CEO if it was doable to “turn off the woke settings” on the chatbot platform ChatGPT.

The hazard of coaching AI to be woke – in different phrases, lie – is lethal

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

In April 2023, throughout an interview with former-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk hinted on the plans for a brand new AI enterprise. He stated, “We’re going to start something which I call TruthGPT.” He described it as a “maximum truth-seeking AI that cares about understanding the universe.”

A couple of months in the past, throughout an interview, he opined that AI may trigger the destruction of civilization and known as for a pause on an “out of control” race within the subject of Artificial Intelligence.

Apart from Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, adopted by social media platform Twitter, Musk now owns an AI platform which will increase the bar a lot increased for the gamers within the trade.

The announcement of the brand new firm got here at a time when Twitter was seeing a brand new rival out there within the type of Threads by Instagram, which was launched on sixth July.