Elon Musk has revealed that he founded an artificial intelligence company to take on ChatGPT-maker, OpenAI.
The startup xAI officially began operations on Wednesday with the stated mission of “understanding the true nature of the universe.”
Anything other than that hasn’t been revealed.
The newly formed company based in the San Francisco Bay Area has hired a group of top AI experts who formerly worked at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Tesla.
According to a statement, it will be independent of X Corp., the new parent company of Twitter, yet collaborate closely with it “to make progress towards our mission.”
Musk co-founded OpenAI and contributed to its early funding but later cut ties with the San Francisco-based research facility. Since the release of ChatGPT last year, which increased OpenAI’s commercial success and established its financial ties to Microsoft, he has been more and more critical of the company.
In April, Musk told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that OpenAI’s well-known chatbot had a leftist bias and that he was working on a replacement that would be a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.”
Elon Musk’s startup embodies his longstanding worries regarding the existential threat posed by AI systems in the future.
According to Musk, an AI that wants to comprehend humans is less likely to eradicate it.
