Elon Musk launched his long-teased synthetic intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a crew made up of engineers from the identical massive US expertise companies that he hopes to problem in his bid to construct an alternative choice to ChatGPT.
The startup shall be led by Musk, the CEO of Tesla and proprietor of Twitter, who has stated on a number of events that the event of AI ought to be paused and that the sector wanted regulation.
“Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality,” Musk stated in a tweet on Wednesday.
The web site stated xAI will maintain a Twitter Spaces occasion on July 14.
The crew at xAI contains Igor Babuschkin, a former engineer at DeepMind, Tony Wu, who labored at Google, Christian Szegedy, who was additionally a analysis scientist at Google and Greg Yang, who was beforehand at Microsoft.
Musk in March registered a agency named X.AI Corp, integrated in Nevada, in response to a state submitting.
The agency lists Musk as the only director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s household workplace, as a secretary.
The billionaire had stated in April that he would launch TruthGPT or a most truth-seeking AI to rival Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing AI that tries to grasp the character of the universe.
Generative AI caught the limelight with OpenAI’s launch of in style chatbot ChatGPT, which got here in November final 12 months, forward of the launch of Bard and Bing AI.
Dan Hendrycks, who will advise the xAI crew, presently serves because the director of the Center for AI Safety and his work revolves across the dangers of AI.
Musk’s new firm is separate from X Corp, however will work carefully with Twitter, Tesla, and different corporations, in response to the web site.
xAI stated it’s recruiting skilled engineers and researchers within the Bay Area. — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
