According to The Information on Wednesday local time, aTeslaThe engineer has switched to the same boss - Muskof AI startups xA,This is the third engineer poached from Tesla to join xAI.
Tesla machine learning scientist Ethan Knight has reportedly switched to xAI. According to a former employee, Ethan was responsible for managing the computer vision team for autonomous driving technology at Tesla. Before he left,Several engineers who previously worked on supercomputing, autonomous driving, and AI infrastructure at Tesla have joined xAI in the past 12 months..
In the process of building xAI, Musk needs to compete for talent with large technology giants or other start-ups. "Borrowing people" from his own Tesla is also a means.
When xAI was officially established in July last year, Musk said that the purpose of establishing the company was to "understand the true nature of the universe."xAI team members have worked in cutting-edge companies such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and academic institutions such as the University of Toronto., has participated in projects such as AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
On March 29, xAI announced the launch of Grok-1.5 Large language model,ThatWith improved inference capabilities and 128k context length, one of the most notable improvements is its performance in coding and math-related tasks. Grok-1.5 will be rolled out to early testers and existing Grok users on the 𝕏 platform in the coming days.