Elon Musk founded a new company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) in March, called X.AI and based in Nevada, according to an official document consulted by AFP on the registry of companies registered in this US state.
According to an article published Friday by the financial times (FT), the new entity will have to compete with OpenAI, the Californian start-up that designed ChatGPT, a generative AI program capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of text on demand.
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The success of this interface since its launch at the end of November has launched a veritable race for this high-potential technology. Since the end of February, various specialized media have reported that Elon Musk is investing in this area.
According to his anonymous sources, he recently recruited Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, who worked for DeepMind, the artificial intelligence arm of Alphabet (Google’s parent company).
It is also said to have bought some 10,000 graphics processors, computers needed to train language models, the basis of generative AI systems. The entrepreneur, however, signed a call last month to take a break from next-generation AI research.
The hundreds of signatories evoke various risks related to this technology, asking themselves in these terms: “Is it desirable to develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber and replace us?”
Musk vs. AI “awakened”
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. Since then, he has criticized the company, saying in a tweet last December that it trains AI to “wake up” (a term for a fringe of of the American left). , that is, “lie”.
X.AI’s official registration document, dated March 9, 2023, lists a single director, Elon Musk, and a secretary, Jared Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker who manages the billionaire’s fortune, according to the FT.
“X” is a mathematical symbol that the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and Neuralink especially likes.
Before the Twitter acquisition, he made cryptic allusions to “X,” his vision of an all-purpose app (messaging, social network, financial services, etc.), like WeChat in China.
It recently changed Twitter’s name to “X Corp,” and the social network’s headquarters are no longer in Delaware (where most US companies are located) but in Nevada. It is found in the given name of one of his children, a boy named X Æ A- 12.
Source: BFM TV
