Elon Musk’s latest AI startup, xAI, seeks to comprehend the cosmos. Musk chastised OpenAI and Google for failing to examine the hazards to humanity. xAI will collaborate closely with Twitter and Tesla, training its AI models with public tweets.
Elon Musk announced on Friday that the goal of his new artificial intelligence business, xAI, is to “understand the universe.”
The billionaire presented his idea for xAI for the first time in an often rambling 90-minute Twitter Spaces audio discussion, veering into issues like as the Earth’s evolution and the fragility of civilisation.
Musk quipped that xAI’s mission statement would be “what the hell is really going on?” in order to gain a better knowledge of the universe.
Musk announced the launch of xAI on Wednesday, accusing businesses such as OpenAI and Google of researching artificial intelligence without addressing the hazards to humanity.
Google and OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment.
He stated that xAI’s goal would be to create a “good AGI” as an alternative to Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI. AGI is an abbreviation for artificial general intelligence, and it refers to AI that can solve problems in the same way as humans do.
Musk said xAI would collaborate closely with his other firms, Twitter and Tesla, during the Spaces session, which was delayed because Twitter wanted to “tweak the algorithm” to push the conversation to more users.
The startup will train its AI models using public tweets and may collaborate with Tesla on AI software.
According to Musk, such a partnership would be of “mutual benefit” and may hasten Tesla’s work on self-driving capabilities.
He also accused all AI businesses of illegally training their models using Twitter data.
Musk, who has advocated for AI laws, said he pushed for talks with White House officials and emphasised the significance of AI regulation in recent conversations with key Chinese government officials.