Elon Musk publicly disclosed the creation of xAI. xAI is a company that wants to figure out “the real nature of our universe” and will use a strong team of industry professionals to compete with OpenAI’s famous chatbot ChatGPT. Musk has spoken out against OpenAI in the past.
It is said that Elon Musk buys numerous GPUs for his creative AI project.
Bloomberg says that xAI started in March, when Musk and Jared Birchall, who runs Musk’s family office, registered a company called “X.AI” in Nevada. The business’s online domain name is “x.ai,” which is also a unique name. In April, news came out that Musk was still talking to financiers from Tesla and SpaceX about how to fund a new AI company. At the time, we said that Musk had bought several thousand GPUs from Nvidia for use in AI.
On the website for the new company, Musk said that he will lead the main team himself. The company will also use the skills of AI experts from tech giants like Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft, and Tesla, as well as from universities like the University of Toronto.
On that list are Igor Babuschkin, who used to work for DeepMind, Manuel Kroiss, who works for DeepMind, Tony Wu, who works for the University of Toronto, and Christian Szegedy, who works for Google Research. It also names Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zihang Dai. This group’s past work in machine learning includes the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalisation, Layer Normalisation, Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, and the finding of adversarial instances that trick AI models into giving wrong results.
Critics of AI say that growth should stop for 6 months because they are afraid of “loss of control.”
Even though xAI is a separate company from X Corp, it hopes to work closely with other Musk companies, such as Twitter and Tesla, to get its job done.
This year, Musk joined a group of researchers and leaders in the tech industry who called for a six-month break from training AI models “more powerful than GPT-4.” Musk’s decision to start a company that could speed up the development of AI seems to be at odds with itself. However, it shows his complicated and sometimes changeable relationship with a field he sees as possibly dangerous but also hard to ignore from a business point of view.
Along these lines, xAI also said that Dan Hendrycks, who runs the study group Centre for AI Safety and is in charge of AI alignment, will be advising the team. In May, a second open letter was sent out by the Centre for AI Safety. It warned about the “risk of elimination” from AI.
The company also said that it is actively looking for skilled engineers and researchers in the Bay Area to join its technical team.
Elon musk history
South African-born American businessman Elon Musk cofounded PayPal and SpaceX, a launch vehicle and spaceship manufacturer. He was one of Tesla’s first major investors and CEO. Musk also bought Twitter in 2022.
Early life
Musk was brought up to South African and Canadian parents. He showed early computing and entrepreneurial talent. He sold a video game to a computer magazine at 12. Musk left the country in 1988 after getting a Canadian passport as he didn’t want to promote segregation via military service and wanted better business possibilities in the U
SpaceX and PayPal
Musk earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1997 after attending Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1992. He quit Stanford University’s physics graduate school after two days because he believed the Internet might influence society more than physics. He created Zip2, a web-based news map and company directory provider, in 1995. After Zip2 was bought by Compaq for $307 million in 1999, Musk created X.com, which subsequently became PayPal, an online money transfer company. Auction site eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002.
Musk has believed that mankind must become a multiplanet species to survive. However, rocket launchers were too expensive for him. He created SpaceX in 2002 to manufacture cheaper rockets. Falcon 1 (launched in 2006) and Falcon 9 (launched in 2010) were its first two rockets, aiming to be cheaper than competitors. A third rocket, the Falcon Heavy (launched in 2018), could lift 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit for one-third the cost of the Boeing Company’s Delta IV Heavy. SpaceX revealed the Super Heavy–Starship system to replace the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.The Starship, a spacecraft allowing quick travel between Earth cities and Moon and Mars colonies, would be the payload. Dragon, which delivers supplies to the ISS, was designed by SpaceX. Dragon carried seven astronauts to the ISS in 2020, including Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken. The 2020 Super Heavy–Starship test flights began. Musk designed the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Starship while CEO of SpaceX. NASA’s Artemis space programme has contracted SpaceX to build the Moon lander for astronauts returning in 2025.
Tesla
Musk had long been interested in electric cars, and in 2004, he helped fund Tesla Motors (later renamed Tesla), founded by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Tesla’s first automobile, the Roadster, could go 245 miles (394 km) on a charge in 2006. Musk thought most electric cars were boring, but it was a sports car that could run from 0 to 60 mph in under four seconds. The company raised $226 million in its 2010 IPO. Two years later, Tesla released the Model S car, which automobile journalists praised for its performance and design. The 2015 Model X luxury SUV earned the firm further praise. The cheaper Model 3 became the best-selling electric car of all time in 2017.
Musk joined Twitter in 2009 and became one of its most prominent accounts, @elonmusk, with 85 million followers in 2022. Tesla’s public listing worried him, and in August 2018, he tweeted about taking the firm private at $420 per share with “secured funding.” (The $420 value was a joke reference to April 20, cannabis day.) The next month, the SEC sued Musk for securities fraud, calling the tweets “false and misleading.” Shortly after, Tesla’s board rejected the SEC’s deal because Musk threatened to resign. However, Tesla shares plummeted, and a tougher settlement was approved. Musk had to step down as chairman for three years, but he could remain as CEO. Tesla attorneys had to authorize his tweets, and both Tesla and Musk were fined $20 million.
Given Twitter’s content-moderation procedures, Musk criticized the company’s free speech pledge. Twitter filed SEC documents in April 2022 revealing that Musk had purchased over 9% of the company. Twitter announced Musk would join the board, but Musk declined and bid $44 billion for the entire business for $54.20 a share. The deal gave him sole ownership of Twitter, which the board approved. Musk said the company was “improving the product with fresh capabilities, making its algorithms freely available to boost trust, eliminating malicious bots, and verifying all humans.” Musk withdrew his proposal in July 2022, alleging Twitter had not provided sufficient details about bot accounts and was in “material violation of several provisions” of its purchase agreement. Twitter board chair Bret Taylor said the firm was “dedicated to completing the deal on the amount and terms that were agreed upon with Mr. Musk.” Musk was sued by Twitter to buy the firm. Twitter shareholders approved Musk’s offer in September 2022. Musk closed the deal in October despite legal challenges.
