Billionaire Elon Musk in March founded a new company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) called X.AI, based in Nevada, according to an official document consulted by Agence France-Presse on the company’s registry in the US state.
According to an article published by the Financial Times (FT) on Friday April 14, the new company will compete with OpenAI, a Californian start-up that designed ChatGPT, an AI program capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of text on demand. . The success of this interface, released at the end of November, has started a real competition for this high-potential technology.
Since the end of February, various specialized media have reported that Elon Musk is investing in this area. According to their anonymous sources, he recently hired Igor Babushkin and Manuel Grois, both of whom worked at DeepMind, the AI branch of Alphabet (Google’s parent company). He would have purchased the 10,000 graphics processing units (GPU) needed to train language models, the foundation of generative AI systems.
An empire under the sign of X
However, the entrepreneur signed a call last month to take a break from research on next-generation AI. Hundreds of signatories evoke the various risks associated with this technology and ask themselves in these terms: “Would it be desirable to create non-human spirits that would eventually outgrow us, surpass us, replace us?”.
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. He later criticized the company, most notably in a tweet last December that said it was training AI. “woke up”I mean, have to “lie”.
X.AI’s official registration document, dated March 9, 2023, is owned by Elon Musk and a secretary, Jared Birchall – a former Morgan Stanley banker who manages the wealth of several billionaires, the FT says. “X” It’s a math symbol that the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and Neuralink is particularly fond of.
Before the Twitter acquisition, he made subtle hints “X”, its vision of an all-purpose app (messaging, social networking, financial services, etc.) similar to WeChat in China. He recently changed his Twitter name “X Corp”, and the social network’s headquarters is not in Delaware (where most US companies are located) but in Nevada. X Æ A- 12 It is found in the first name of one of the children of a boy baptized.
