Elon Musk AI-Powered Empire Expands Again, X.AI Startup Incorporated in Nevada

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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.



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[Why_Me]

I doubt Musk will be using AI for a chat program.

 

[unwind-protect]

After the results of his messing with engineering at Twitter ("the stack in incredibly brittle!") I am not sure how successful this can be under his leadership.

Maybe I should send in my resume. I would get along with a boss like him sooo well.

 

[Space Lynx]

In before he gives the tech to China for a nice 20 billion, so he can bail his own ass out of his 45 billion dollar Twitter mistake

 

[erocker]

In before he gives the tech to China for a nice 20 billion, so he can bail his own ass out of his 45 billion dollar Twitter mistake

I'm sure China is already feeding him money.

 

[mashie]

I'm sure China is already feeding him money.

The same China that banned his Starlink satellites over their country?

 

[Space Lynx]

The same China that banned his Starlink satellites over their country?

the same China that loves his Tesla factory and battery factor that were just built there

 

[Why_Me]

After the results of his messing with engineering at Twitter ("the stack in incredibly brittle!") I am not sure how successful this can be under his leadership.

Maybe I should send in my resume. I would get along with a boss like him sooo well.

Twitter is better now than it ever has been.

 

[Steevo]

Musk whether you like or detest him is for free market, free speech, and is the first rich South American in the US to work towards a more free society

 

[d1nky]

He has a chip in his head. It's a theory of mine.

 

[Space Lynx]

Musk whether you like or detest him is for free market, free speech, and is the first rich South American in the US to work towards a more free society

the free markets should be more regulated imo. so this isn't a plus in my book. also, all of his businesses are only successful due to tax payer money funding him, the only private business he has ever owned (twitter, is failing to turn a profit)

not sure I'd call him a genius for exploiting socialism for the rich, but hating on socialism for the poor.

 

[Fleurious]

Imagine taking anything he does seriously.

 

[Tom Yum]

Musk whether you like or detest him is for free market, free speech, and is the first rich South American in the US to work towards a more free society

He's an apartheid-era South African who left to dodge compulsory military service, not a South American.

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....

 

[trsttte]

Musk whether you like or detest him is for free market, free speech, and is the first rich South American in the US to work towards a more free society

Unless you dare criticize him, say goodbye to your free speech then. He's only after his own interests, whatever they are at any given particular time

It is also noteworthy that this comes about a week after he called for a 6 month pause in AI research

"please please stop for a bit so that I can catch up!"

 

[Steevo]

He's an apartheid-era South African who left to dodge compulsory military service, not a South American.

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....

Ahh yes, he was directly responsible apartheid this and racism that. Straw man with no filling.

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

 

[Space Lynx]

Ahh yes, he was directly responsible apartheid this and racism that. Straw man with no filling.

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

AI being dangerous is highly overrated imo.

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.

 

[Why_Me]

AI being dangerous is highly overrated imo.

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.

And you know this how?

 

[Space Lynx]

And you know this how?

because it can't even handle basic questions i throw at it, like I just said.

 

[Why_Me]

because it can't even handle basic questions i throw at it, like I just said.

AI evolve and not only that they can be manipulated.

 

[MadMan007]

aka - Elon's latest financial scam.

 

[Space Lynx]

AI evolve and not only that they can be manipulated.

we already lived in a failed nation state due to media manipulation, social media and traditional. including tik tok warping the minds and shortening the attention spans of kids brain development, but no one cares in Congress.

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

 

[Why_Me]

we already lived in a failed nation state due to media manipulation, social media and traditional. including tik tok warping the minds and shortening the attention spans of kids brain development, but no one cares in Congress.

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

After reading the twitter files I'm scared sh1tless if the govt. finds a way to manipulate these AI chatbots.

 

[trsttte]

After reading the twitter files I'm scared sh1tless if the govt. finds a way to manipulate these AI chatbots.

Seriously, because of that nothingburger people like to pretend is some huge revelation? lol

 

[Space Lynx]

After reading the twitter files I'm scared sh1tless if the govt. finds a way to manipulate these AI chatbots.

government already manipulates everything, so if anything you should be hoping AI moves as fast as it possibly can, it might be the only chance for human survival. maybe sci-fi got it wrong. maybe humans have a tendency towards destruction and eventually will have nuclear war (Ukraine/Russia stuff is bringing us closer and closer to that), maybe we need super advanced AI to save the species.

I say, let the AI companies run wild, lets toss the dice baby.

 

[trsttte]

I say, let the AI companies run wild, lets toss the dice baby.

I can never decide between the "could it get any worse?" and the "it can always get worse" statements. It doesn't help that every media depiction of powerfull AI's is a terrible dystopic world, be it books, movies or whatever, it's always a nightmare on one form or another.