Elon Musk announced Wednesday the formation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence (AI), after months of mocking plans to build a rival to ChatGPT.
The company, called x.AI, unveiled a website and a team of a dozen employees. The new venture will be led by Musk, according to the website, and will “work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla and other companies to advance our mission.”
“The goal of xAI is to understand the nature of the universe,” the website states, echoing language Musk has used before to describe his AI ambitions.
Musk was an early backer of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, but later criticized the company for introducing security measures that aim to prevent the viral chatbot from throwing up biased or sexist responses.
“The danger of training AI to be ‘aware’, in other words, lie, is deadly,” Musk tweeted in December, responding to a Twitter user who asked OpenAI’s CEO if it was possible to “disable alert settings” in ChatGPT. .
Musk’s announcement of the new company comes months after he warned in an interview that he believes AI could cause the “destruction of civilization” and joined other tech leaders in calling for a pause in an “out-of-control” AI race.
Few other details about the company’s mission were immediately available, but the website indicates it is actively recruiting. At the moment, the dozen employees of the website appear to be men.
