On the evening of November 3,MuskAnnounced on social media, its newly establishedxAAI company, released to specific users on November 4Firstproduct, and claimed that “in some important respects, this is themostof."
According to the introduction on xAI’s official website and the “grudge” between Musk and OpenAI, xAI may release a ChatGPT-like product that can generate various texts, codes, summary content, etc., to help companies reduce costs and increase efficiency.
It is worth mentioning that Musk is one of the main co-founders of OpenAI and served as a director from 2015 to 2018. Because he was worried about possible conflicts of interest with Tesla in the future, he left OpenAI in 2018.
But OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Musk believed OpenAI had fallen behind other companies such as Google, and Musk proposed to take over OpenAI himself, but the board rejected it.
According to information, xAI was founded in July this year with the aim of "understanding the nature of the universe" and hopes to compete with technology giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
The core founders of xAI come from manyTopTechnology companies have participated in well-known projects such as DeepMind's AlphaCode, OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and are very strong in technology research and development.
In an interview program in April this year,Musk has said that he will launch a project called TruthGPT tomaximumThe ultimate truth-seeking artificial intelligence attempts to understand the nature of the universe and evolve towards AGI (artificial general intelligence)..
Musk believes that only when AI can solve basic problems can it be considered general AI. He believes that achieving AGI is simpler than we think, just like the answers to some scientific problems are often unexpectedly simple in the end. xAI's goal is to achieve general AI in 2028-2029, which is almost the same as the prediction of technology prophet Ray Kurzweil.
In addition, Musk also revealed that xAI will cooperate with Tesla in many aspects, which will improve Tesla's autonomous driving capabilities. xAI will also target consumers and enterprises, competing with OpenAI
Musk has an open mind about AI safety. He believes that regulation should promote rather than overly hinder the progress of AI, just like a lighthouse in navigation that guides the direction but does not stop the ship.