The xAI team says it will work closely with Twitter and Tesla.

xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.

“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” according to the website. The team is headed up by Elon Musk and includes team members that have worked at other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind (which was recently folded into Google).

  • @[email protected]English
    51•1 year ago

    It’s hilarious to me that Elon insisted on having a headshot and being mentioned first in the team description. Everyone knows he isn’t doing anything of value, but he has to appear as if he’s writing the code himself because his tiny ego can’t tolerate “just” being the money guy.

    • Chariotwheel
      16•1 year ago

      Haven’t you heard? He personally designed rockets, satellites, and electric car batteries and he also mined his own emeralds.

      • NXTR
        10•1 year ago

        I heard he also hand builds every Tesla. Crazy he has time to do that while meticulously crafting every starlink satellite and raptor engine from scratch!

  • @[email protected]English
    37•1 year ago

    Elon Musk: “No! You can scrape Twitter data for AI research!”

    Also Elon Musk: “I’m gonna start scraping Internet data for my AI research”

    • @[email protected]English
      16•1 year ago

      Also musk: “I’m gonna sue you for creating threads with engineers that previously worked at Twitter”

      Also also musk: “We have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field” (from their website)

      • @[email protected]English
        8•1 year ago

        Also musk: AI is dangerous OpenAI and Google should stop developing it until the legislation is ready

  • @nieceandtowsEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    Wait, I thought Musk wanted all AI development to stop for a while until regulations were put in place?

  • StarServal
    13•1 year ago

    Oh boy, can’t wait for the new racist, antisemitic, transphobic, far right fascist AI to emerge from this.

    • Sabata11792
      4•1 year ago

      I can’t wait till it leaks and gets made to write horny stories like the Facebook one did.

    • debounced
      2•1 year ago

      and like who the hell is he gonna hire to do this “research”? they’re all going to be bottom barrel D students at best, lol. good luck with that, but i guess you gotta find ways to pump up those stocks somehow, i suppose.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    What was the deal between openAI and Musk? I always tough it was his company, but then it wasn’t.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      He used to be a donor and a board member

      In 2018, Musk resigned his board seat, citing “a potential future conflict [of interest]” with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla’s AI development for self-driving cars. Sam Altman claims that Musk believed OpenAI had fallen behind other players like Google and Musk proposed instead to take over OpenAI himself, which the board rejected. Musk subsequently left OpenAI but claimed to remain a donor, yet made no donations after his departure.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    Given the fuss he made about OpenAI being closed source (a case of broken clocks), it will be interesting to see if this is open source (doubt)