Saturday, April 15th 2023
Elon Musk AI-Powered Empire Expands Again, X.AI Startup Incorporated in Nevada
Elon Musk has formed a new AI-focused company, as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday. The entity registered under the name X.AI was incorporated via a filing in Nevada last month, and Musk appears to be listed as the company's only director with Jared Birchall joining him under the role of secretary. Birchall heads the Musk family office, Excession LLC, and he serves as CEO of Neuralink - a neurotechnology company that was co-founded by Musk back in 2016. It is widely speculated that Birchall serves as a type of fixer - go watch the TV series "Ray Donovan" if you would like to observe a crude (and obviously fictional) example - in corporate affairs.
Reports emerged earlier this week, with Musk being at the forefront of a massive purchase of GPUs destined to arrive shortly at his data centers - this impressive chunk of hardware is speculated to power AI-related number crunching at Twitter in the near future. The founding of X.AI could provide another home for a portion of the 10,000 GPU order, but industry insiders firmly believe that Twitter will need to tool up quickly for its new AI-driven endeavor - the GPUs will likely be set to work on a ChatBot system to underpin the social media platform. Musk has already recruited researchers from DeepMind and setup a lab for them at one of his operations. It remains to be seen how the X.AI startup will run alongside efforts at other Musk-owned companies - it is theorized that he wants to beat OpenAI at their own game, and compete with similar undertakings at Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
Sources:
WSJ, Guardian News, X.AI Filing on Document Cloud, Bloomberg
Reports emerged earlier this week, with Musk being at the forefront of a massive purchase of GPUs destined to arrive shortly at his data centers - this impressive chunk of hardware is speculated to power AI-related number crunching at Twitter in the near future. The founding of X.AI could provide another home for a portion of the 10,000 GPU order, but industry insiders firmly believe that Twitter will need to tool up quickly for its new AI-driven endeavor - the GPUs will likely be set to work on a ChatBot system to underpin the social media platform. Musk has already recruited researchers from DeepMind and setup a lab for them at one of his operations. It remains to be seen how the X.AI startup will run alongside efforts at other Musk-owned companies - it is theorized that he wants to beat OpenAI at their own game, and compete with similar undertakings at Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
79 Comments on Elon Musk AI-Powered Empire Expands Again, X.AI Startup Incorporated in Nevada
Maybe I should send in my resume. I would get along with a boss like him sooo well.
not sure I'd call him a genius for exploiting socialism for the rich, but hating on socialism for the poor.
It is also noteworthy that this comes about a week after he called for a 6 month pause in AI research, and 6 months after he bought Twitter to 'crush the bots'. Now he wants to develop AI-powered twitter bots....
Maybe he figures if other companies that are capable of creating bots with flawed AI are first he should have a more reasonable and balanced AI that isn’t tainted by conflicting laws, I mean, HAL9000 would have been fine if not for conflicting laws. The whole AI creation that has bias is directly counter to its existence
It can't even answer basic philosophical questions I ask it, and this includes CHatGPT4. Bit of a joke how dumb and far behind it is imo.
so I mean, hell AI getting more advanced might be a good thing, maybe it will be like, hey you are all dummies, stop doing stupid shit, lol
I say, let the AI companies run wild, lets toss the dice baby.