Billionaire Elon Musk has once again entered the field of artificial intelligence, officially announcing his newly created technology enterprise xAI, which aims to "understand the true nature of the universe." There are several clues on the official xAI website that future products or services will be related to generative AI.
According to the official website of xAI, xAI will be a separate company from X Corp, and will work closely with Musk's other companies, such as Twitter and Tesla. It is worth mentioning that xAI has already started a cooperation plan with Twitter.
The xAI team consists of former engineers from major tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Tesla. The previous work of these experts has led to "some major breakthroughs" in artificial intelligence, and they have even been directly involved in the development of well-known LLMs (Large Language Models) such as GPT-4.
As a former investor in OpenAI, Musk has always been full of expectations for the field of artificial intelligence, and also full of regrets about eventually missing OpenAI and ChatGPT. In this wave of rapid development of artificial intelligence, Musk also wants to develop his own generative artificial intelligence, which is currently the closest artificial intelligence technology to the ideal state.
Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, Musk has been outspoken in criticizing it and other similar systems. As early as the end of March 2023, Musk signed a letter with other members of the tech community asking all AI labs around the world to suspend training AI models for "at least six months." The letter urged developers to slow down and implement "security protocols" to curb the spread of misinformation.
It's true that ChatGPT does sometimes fabricate false information, and OpenAI is currently figuring out how to fix this. That's what Musk wants xAI to do, and he wants to develop an AI that doesn't fabricate false information.
At present, xAI is still in the preparatory stage, there are only some simple team introductions and job postings on the official website, and we do not know what kind of artificial intelligence services xAI will launch in the future. Although xAI has gathered a small group of world-class researchers, it lacks the strength to compete with the AI research teams of large companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in terms of numbers alone.
xAI claims to be founded to "explore the nature of the universe", and this extremely exaggerated statement is undoubtedly to attract more talents to join. With Musk's reputation and deep pockets, does xAI have any hope of being the next OpenAI? Anything is possible.