Musk officially announces the launch of the artificial intelligence company XAI
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of Twitter, announced on Wednesday the formation of his new company specializing in artificial intelligence (xAI) with the goal of "understanding the true nature of the universe."
According to what was written on the company's official website, the billionaire Musk will share with XII employees more information about the company in a chat within (Twitter Spaces) next Friday.
It is noteworthy that the members of the XAI team are former employees of well-established companies, such as: the two artificial intelligence research companies (DeepMind) and (Open AI), the two research companies from Google and Microsoft Google Research, Microsoft Research, Twitter, and Tesla. .
The new company's team members have worked on projects such as AlphaCode from DeepMind, and the two large language models GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 from OpenEye. any).
Musk is believed to be putting XII in direct competition with companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which are behind popular chatbots: ChatGBT, Bard,
and Cloud, respectively.
And the Financial Times reported in mid-April that billionaire Musk plans to launch an artificial intelligence startup that would compete with OpenAI.
At the time, the newspaper quoted informed sources as saying that Musk was building a team of researchers and engineers and was in talks with a number of investors.
And it was stated in the report that Musk attracts employees from other major artificial intelligence companies, such as (DeepMind), which is owned by Alphabet.
According to a separate report from Business Insider, Musk has secured thousands of GPU chips from NVIDIA, the chips that are the cornerstone of building large language models, similar to the GPT model from (Graphics). OpenAI).
Shortly after the (Financial Times) report, Musk revealed details of his plans for a new artificial intelligence tool called (TruthGPT), during a recorded interview on the American Fox News channel, and claimed that the well-known chatbot (ChatGPT) ChatGPT is biased toward liberalism, and plans to counter it by launching a "truth-seeking" bot.
This, and (Dan Hendricks), executive director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Security, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, will be one of the advisors (XII).
In May, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety published a letter that raised the "Artificial Intelligence Extinction Threat."
The letter was signed by senior AI executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who urged policymakers to equate the risks of the technology with those posed by pandemics and nuclear war.
More than 350 signatories to the letter said, "Mitigating the extinction risk from AI should be a global priority along with other societal risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
The speech drew opposition from many academics and ethicists who believe that an overemphasis on the growing power of artificial intelligence and its future threats distracts from the real-life damage some algorithms are causing to marginalized societies today, rather than in an indeterminate future.
According to Greg Yang, co-founder of XII, the startup will delve into “the mathematics of deep learning,” an aspect of artificial intelligence, and will “develop a theory of everything for large neural networks to take AI to the next level.”
And (XII) warned that it is a separate company from (X), which is the new name for Twitter, “but we will work closely with (X), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards achieving our mission.”
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