Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of Twitter, on Wednesday announced the debut of a new AI company, xAI, with the goal to “understand the true nature of the universe,” according to the company’s website.
xAI’s site stated that Musk and his team will share more information in a live Twitter Spaces chat on Friday.
xAI team members include alumni of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Twitter and Tesla, who have worked on projects including DeepMind’s AlphaCode and OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 chatbots, CNBC reported.
Greg Yang, co-founder of xAI, said the startup will delve into the “mathematics of deep learning,” a facet of AI, and “develop the ‘theory of everything’ for large neural networks” to take AI “to the next level.”
Musk co-founded the company in April, hinting that he was working on developing an alternative to ChatGPT called “TruthGPT” in an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year.
During the interview with the Fox News channel, he said he feared existing AI companies are prioritizing systems that are “politically correct.”
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