Elon Musk has launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence startup xAI, which aims to create a replacement for ChatGPT.
The Twitter owner has brought in a team of engineers from other tech companies that he hopes will challenge the field. artificial intelligence field.
musk It has warned for months that artificial intelligence could cause “civilization destruction” and argued that the race between companies such as Google and Microsoft to develop the technology should be stopped to allow time for regulations on the technology.
Musk said that the reason for launching xAI is “to understand the true nature of the universe.” Musk was also a co-founder of OpenAI, but later credited the startup with sparking the generative AI frenzy.
Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit that aims to reduce the risks posed by the technology, will serve as an advisor to the new company.
The startup’s team includes several former engineers and scientists from Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
“We have worked on and led the development of some of the biggest breakthroughs in this field, including AlphaStar…GPT-3.5 and GPT-4,” the startup says on its website.
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The company is looking for experienced engineers and researchers to join its team as technologists in the Bay Area and will host a Twitter Spaces event on July 14.
Musk’s startup will work closely with his other companies, including Twitter and Tesla, according to the site.
Tesla shares showed little reaction to the news, rising 1.5%, suggesting investors aren’t worried
Startups could be a distraction for Musk.
In March, the billionaire registered a company in Nevada called X.AI Corp, according to a state filing.
The company lists Musk as its sole director, with Jared Birchall, managing director of the Musk family office, serving as secretary.
The Financial Times reported in April that Musk had secured thousands of high-performance GPU processors from Nvidia for the project.