Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pauses during a roundtable event with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool acquire license rights via Portal
Nov 3 (Portal) – Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will unveil its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Friday.
This comes nearly a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT captured the imagination of companies and users around the world and sparked a surge in the adoption of generative AI technology.
Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in 2015, but stepped down from the company’s board in 2018.
“In some important ways, it (xAI’s new model) is the best thing out there,” he posted on his social media platform X.
“Once early beta completes, xAI’s Grok system will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers,” Musk wrote.
X, formerly known as Twitter, launched two new subscriptions last week: a Premium+ plan priced at $16 per month for users willing to pay for an ad-free experience, and a Basic plan priced at $3 -dollars per month.
The billionaire, who has been critical of Big Tech’s AI efforts and what he calls censorship, said earlier this year he would launch a maximal truth-seeking AI that attempts to understand the nature of the universe in order to help with Google’s (gogetL.O) Bard and rival Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Bing AI.
The team behind xAI, which launched in July, includes Google’s DeepMind, Windows parent company, and other leading AI research companies.
Although X and xAI are separate, the companies work closely together. xAI also works with Tesla and other companies.
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (ORCL.N) and a self-proclaimed close friend of Musk, said in September that xAI had signed a contract to train its AI model on Oracle’s cloud.
Reporting by Akash Sriram and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Edited by Shinjini Ganguli and William Mallard
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