xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.

“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” according to the website. The team is headed up by Elon Musk and includes team members that have worked at other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind (which was recently folded into Google).

  • driving_crooner
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    1 year ago

    What was the deal between openAI and Musk? I always tough it was his company, but then it wasn’t.

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      1 year ago

      He used to be a donor and a board member

      In 2018, Musk resigned his board seat, citing “a potential future conflict [of interest]” with his role as CEO of Tesla due to Tesla’s AI development for self-driving cars. Sam Altman claims that Musk believed OpenAI had fallen behind other players like Google and Musk proposed instead to take over OpenAI himself, which the board rejected. Musk subsequently left OpenAI but claimed to remain a donor, yet made no donations after his departure.