Since Musk recruited a new CEO for Twitter, he has more time to do his own thing. Recently, Musk is recruiting top researchers for his newly created artificial intelligence company, xAI. Musk valued xAI at $20 billion. He said he would take out a portion of the shares as stock options as a bonus for successfully signing up with these top AI experts.
xAI has already attracted top researchers from research institutions such as Google and the University of Toronto. But Musk believes that this is not enough, and that more researchers need to be added. Many researchers join xAI just to be able to continue their research. Some people want to use machine learning to solve mathematical problems. Still others want to use machine learning to test mathematical theorems.
While the reform of Twitter has caused a lot of trouble, no one doubts Musk's ability to create tech companies and recruit top researchers. As early as 2015, Musk participated in the creation of OpenAI and recruited many artificial intelligence research experts for OpenAI. Although Musk left OpenAI because of different philosophies, OpenAI's ChatGPT has changed the application of artificial intelligence technology.
Due to the success of ChatGPT, more technology companies are starting to join the generative AI field, which has doubled the competitive pressure of xAI. In order to be able to shorten the gap with other technology companies. Musk purchased 40,000 GPUs from Nvidia at one time, but Nvidia said it could only provide 20,000 GPUs to it in 12 months.
Musk's goal in building xAI is to understand the nature of the real universe. This seems to be a far cry from the philosophy of other tech companies. But given Musk's space dreams, this goal is not difficult to understand. Although it will take a long time to unlock the secrets of the universe with artificial intelligence, it can be seen that Musk is systematically integrating his company. SpaceX is used to explore the universe, Tesla robots can help Musk build a base on Mars, but this requires the help of artificial intelligence, so another task of xAI is to help Musk fulfill his dream. Musk's brain-chip company will also improve human capabilities, especially for astronauts who are engaged in space exploration.
While Musk has experience successfully creating multiple tech companies, some experts still believe that xAI may have survival problems. Because xAI sets too big a goal and threatens the interests of tech giants like Google and Microsoft. But these experts overlook the problem that Musk has Tesla. Although Tesla's self-driving technology is doubtful, Tesla's self-driving technology, which relies mainly on vision, shows its superiority in visual processing. These advantages have the potential to help xAI overtake in corners. And xAI will show more features through the Tesla robot platform. xAI may also help itself and Twitter grow their business through Twitter.
In general, xAI must be joined by top AI researchers for it to be successful. This is also the reason why Musk is constantly busy during this time.