Musk Officially Launches AI Startup 'xAI'... "Aiming to Understand the Essence of the Universe"

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has officially launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) company called 'xAI.'

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
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On the 12th (local time), 'xAI' announced on its website that "xAI was launched on July 12, 2023." The company stated that it aims to "understand the true nature of the universe" and will share more information during a live Twitter Spaces chat on the 14th.

The members of 'xAI' include many former employees from DeepMind, which developed AlphaGo, OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and Tesla. Among the 12 members revealed on the website are Igor Babushkin, a former DeepMind engineer; Tony Wu and Christian Szegedy from Google; Greg Yang from Microsoft; and Jimmy Ba, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto.

'xAI' stated, "Although we are a separate company from our parent company 'X Corp,' which merged with Twitter, we will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies," adding that "more information will be shared during the live Twitter Spaces chat on the 14th."

Earlier, in March, Musk established a corporation named 'X.AI' in Nevada together with his family wealth manager Jared Birchall. In mid-April, he also appeared on Fox News and expressed his intention to develop a new AI tool called 'TruthGPT.'

Several foreign media outlets reported that Musk is contacting investors and recruiting engineers to create an AI-related startup.

Previously, in 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman and others. However, due to conflicts of interest during the research process, he resigned from the board and divested all his investment shares.

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