xAI will be led by Twitter owner Musk and the new AI company's team includes members who previously worked at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk forms a new AI company called xAI. (Credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay)
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced the formation of a new artificial intelligence (AI) company, dubbed xAI, with a mission to understand the true nature of the universe.
In a tweet, Musk revealed that the new AI company’s aim is to understand reality.
According to various media reports, the company has been formed as an alternative to ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by US-based AI research and deployment company OpenAI.
XAI will be led by Twitter owner Musk. The company’s team includes members who previously worked at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto.
The team is said to have collectively contributed some of the broadly used methods in the field, including the Adam optimiser, batch normalisation, layer normalisation, and the discovery of adversarial examples, stated xAI on its website.
Besides, the team created new techniques and analyses like Transformer-XL, Autoformalisation, the Memorising Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, and μTransfer.
Furthermore, its members have led the development of some of the breakthroughs including AlphaCode, AlphaStar, Minerva, Inception, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.
Musk is seeking to create a safer AI, reported Reuters citing a Twitter Spaces event.
He has been quoted by the news agency, as saying: “If it tried to understand the true nature of the universe, that’s actually the best thing that I can come up with from an AI safety standpoint.
“I think it is going to be pro-humanity from the standpoint that humanity is just much more interesting than not-humanity.”
In March 2023, Musk along with several AI researchers and other prominent industry executives signed an open letter that called for an immediate pause on AI developments for at least six months.