{"id":35140,"date":"2023-07-13T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/elon-musks-new-xai-company-joins-chatbot-race\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:07:52","slug":"elon-musks-new-xai-company-joins-chatbot-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=35140","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s New xAI Company Joins Chatbot Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk announced<\/a> he has started an artificial intelligence platform called xAI, which says its mission is to \u201cunderstand the true nature of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk, the owner of several companies including
\n Tesla
\n (ticker: TSLA), SpaceX, and Twitter, made the announcement in a tweet, which immediately garnered 40,000 \u201clikes\u201d and 4,447 retweets. By 6 p.m. Wednesday, it had 112,000 likes and 12,500 retweets.<\/p>\n

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Musk also changed his Twitter bio to the single word:\u00a0\u00a0@xAI<\/a><\/p>\n

Musk has discussed plans to build an AI operation to rival that of
\n Microsoft
\n and
\n Alphabet
\n -owned Google. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that developed the ChatGPT chatbot. Musk left that venture in 2018 and Microsoft currently backs it. Musk also recently signed onto an open letter with other technology industry executives calling for a pause in training more powerful AI models. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to start something which I call \u2018Truth GPT\u2019 or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,\u201d Musk said in April during an interview on Fox News. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Musk announced xAI a week after
\n Facebook
\n -parent Meta Platforms (META) launched its microblogging app Threads in more than 100 countries, a rival to Musk\u2019s Twitter. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said 100 million users had signed up in the first five days.<\/p>\n

The @xAI<\/a> profile, opened in May, already has 97,700 followers, despite not having sent a single tweet\u2013until Wednesday.\u00a0The account is following 12 people, including Musk and two others\u2013Greg Yang<\/a> and Toby Pohlen<\/a>\u2013who identify themselves as cofounders of @xAI<\/p>\n

@xAI\u2019s first tweet, asking<\/a> \u201cWhat are the most fundamental unanswered questions?\u201d garnered 9,000 \u201clikes\u201d and 1,600 retweets within the first 30 minutes. By 6 p.m. Wednesday, the account had more than 240,000 followers.<\/p>\n

xAI\u2019s website, https:\/\/x.ai\/ , says that people can meet the team and ask questions during a Twitter Spaces chat<\/a> on Friday, July 14.<\/p>\n

xAI\u2019s team has previously worked at AI companies including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and Google DeepMind. The group is advised by Dan Hendrycks, the director of the Center for AI Safety, a \u00a0research nonprofit that aims to reduce \u201csocietal-scale risks\u201d from the emerging technology.<\/p>\n

The website says xAI is a separate company from Musk\u2019s X Corp, \u201cbut will work closely with X (twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.\u201d The company is also recruiting experienced engineers and researchers for its technical staff in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n

Write to Janet H. Cho at janet.cho@dowjones.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n