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Elon Musk just took a significant step in realizing his vision of a "maximum truth-seeking AI," hoping to eventually replace ChatGPT with xAI at the apex of the world of generative artificial intelligence.
BREAKING: @elonmusk has officially launched the https://t.co/FnJejdKozZ website.
"A new company founded by Elon Musk that sets out to understand the universe; We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make…
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) July 12, 2023
Back in April, Elon Musk merged Twitter with a shell company, X Corp. Today, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter launched a dedicated website for xAI. The website notes:
"The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe."
Bear in mind that Elon Musk has been using the X branding for his vision of an "everything app" on the pattern of Tencent's WeChat.
NEWS: @elonmusk says he is creating a maximum truth seeking AI chatbot called “TruthGPT” that tries to understand the nature of the universe.
“An AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to annihilate humans because we are an interesting part of the universe.” pic.twitter.com/hAeEzThqqK
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) April 17, 2023
Musk had explained his AI-related vision in an exclusive interview with Tucker Carlson back in April 2023, in which he declared that he was working on a generative artificial intelligence model that would try to understand the nature of the universe and, therefore, would be unlikely to "annihilate humans."
Delving into the specifics, xAI's team is quite eclectic, with employees coming from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Moreover, the CEO of Tesla and Twitter has already purchased around 10,000 GPUs from NVIDIA to train a Large Language Model (LLM) on the pattern of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Of course, even as Elon Musk takes on the might of ChatGPT with his xAI initiative, he is seeking to undermine Meta's recent Twitter-like offering – dubbed Threads – with outspoken threats of a lawsuit. Musk believes that Meta used Twitter's former employees to create a clone. To prove this contention in court, however, Elon Musk's legal team needs to establish two things: that Meta explicitly informed former Twitter employees that they were hired to create a clone and that Meta deliberately took possession of Twitter's trade secrets. To add to legal complications, Meta already has a sizable repository of social media-related intellectual property that it has acquired over the years.
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