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Elon Musk creates an artificial intelligence start-up called X.AI

Elon Musk founded a new company in March specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), called X.

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Elon Musk creates an artificial intelligence start-up called X.AI

Elon Musk founded a new company in March specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), called X.AI and based in Nevada, according to an official document consulted by AFP on the register of companies registered in this American state. . According to an article published Friday by the Financial Times, the new entity must compete with OpenAI, the Californian start-up that designed ChatGPT, a generative AI program capable of interacting with humans and producing all kinds of texts. on demand.

The success of this interface since its release at the end of November has launched a real race for this high-potential technology. Since the end of February, various specialized media have reported that Elon Musk is investing in this area. According to their anonymous sources, he recently recruited Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, both of whom worked for DeepMind, the AI ​​branch of Alphabet (parent company of Google).

He is also said to have purchased some 10,000 graphics processors - computers needed to train language models, the foundation of generative AI systems. The entrepreneur, however, signed a call last month to take a break from research on next-generation AI. The hundreds of signatories discuss various risks associated with this technology, and ask themselves in these terms: "Is it desirable to develop non-human minds that could ultimately outnumber and outwit us, and replace us?".

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018. He has since criticized the company, notably saying in a tweet last December that it trains AI to be “woke” (a term designating a fringe of the American left), that is, to "lie". X.AI's official registration document, dated March 9, 2023, lists a single director, Elon Musk, and a secretary, Jared Birchall - an ex-Morgan Stanley banker who manages the multibillionaire's fortune, according to the FT.

"X" is a mathematical symbol that the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and Neuralink is particularly fond of. Before the acquisition of Twitter, he made cryptic allusions to "X", his vision of an all-purpose application (messaging, social network, financial services, etc.), like WeChat in China. He recently changed the name of Twitter to "X Corp", and the headquarters of the social network is no longer in Delaware (where most American companies are located) but in Nevada. It is found in the first name of one of his children, a boy baptized X Æ A- 12.

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