Elon Musk launches AI company xAI with an eye on OpenAI – 07/12/2023 – Tech

Elon Musk launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI on Wednesday with a team of engineers from the same US tech companies he hopes to compete with in his attempt to build an alternative to ChatGPT. .

Musk has been warning for months about the potential for “civilizational destruction” of AI, arguing that the race between companies like Google and Microsoft to develop the technology should be stopped to allow time for regulations to be drawn up for the industry.

The reason for launching the startup is to “understand the true nature of the universe,” said Musk, who also co-founded OpenAI but later left the startup — credited with sparking the generative AI craze.

Dan Hendrycks, who serves as director of the AI ​​Security Center (Cais), a non-profit organization that seeks to mitigate the risks posed by technology, will serve as an advisor to the company.

The startup team includes several former engineers and scientists from Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

“We’ve worked on and led the development of some of the biggest innovations in the field, including AlphaStar… GPT-3.5 and GPT-4,” the startup said on its website.

The company, which is seeking experienced engineers and researchers to join its technical team in the San Francisco Bay Area, will host an event on Twitter Spaces on July 14.

Musk’s startup will work closely with his other companies, including Twitter and Tesla, according to the website.