Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the creation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence, a still-mysterious project that is set to be unveiled in more detail on Friday.
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“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” the start-up states on its website, without giving any further details.
Elon Musk explained to him on Twitter that xAI aimed to “understand reality”. The site announces a question-and-answer session on Twitter for Friday to discuss this newcomer to AI.
The company was officially incorporated in Nevada in March, according to that state’s business registry. However, the technology team says it is based in the San Francisco, California area. Upon recording, xAI listed Elon Musk as the director.
The billionaire admitted a few months ago to having bought a large batch of graphics cards (GPU – graphics processing unit), which are essential for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) software, without revealing what he intended to do with them.
“We are a separate company from X Corp,” the holding company that specifically controls Twitter, “but we will work closely with X, Tesla and other companies to advance our mission,” officials said on the website.
Elon Musk already controls Tesla, aerospace company SpaceX, Twitter, as well as tunnel boring company The Boring Company and Neuralink, which specializes in nerve implants.
According to the website, the xAI team, “led by Elon Musk”, consists of recognized artificial intelligence specialists, some of whom come from OpenAI, the inventor of ChatGPT, Google or Microsoft.
During a Fox Channel interview with host Tucker Carlson in April, Elon Musk said he plans to create “a third option” among AI heavyweights alongside Microsoft/OpenAI and Google.
The two tech giants have created the most advanced interfaces in the sense of so-called generative AI, providing written answers to all kinds of questions formulated in everyday language.
“We’re very late,” the entrepreneur admitted.
He called his project “TruthGPT” and spoke of AI software “that searches for the truth as much as possible, that tries to understand the true nature of the universe”.
According to Elon Musk, an artificial intelligence model “that cares about the universe probably wouldn’t destroy the human species because we’re an interesting part of the universe.” Let’s hope he thinks so.”