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Elon Musk announced the formation of xAI, a new artificial intelligence company, on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Announcing the formation of @xAI<\/a> to understand reality<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n xAI’s mission, according to its web site<\/a>is “understanding the true nature of the universe.”<\/p>\n The company may develop Musk’s vision of a bona fide alternative to ChatGPT.<\/p>\n What we need is TruthGPT<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n Or maybe their AI product will be one that not even the AI \u200b\u200bcommunity will understand.<\/p>\n Even the AI \u200b\u200bcommunity doesn’t get it<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n The website claims that xAI is an independent company from X Corp, but plans to collaborate with X (Twitter), Tesla and other companies to achieve its mission.<\/p>\n Tesla’s AI and software team is truly exceptional and I never give false praise<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n The team includes AI experts from companies such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, and Microsoft Research, who have contributed to pioneering optimization methods, normalization techniques, adversarial example discovery, breakthrough analytics, and innovative AI systems such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.<\/p>\n Screenshot by x.ai, July 2023<\/span><\/p>\n Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, is an advisor.<\/p>\n The xAI team and Musk’s top Twitter followers shared excitement over the announcement on Twitter.<\/p>\n Co-founder Greg Yang invited mathematicians and theorists excited about AI for math to reach out via direct message.<\/p>\n Finally released https:\/\/t.co\/qDiFHUDZMv<\/a>!<\/p>\n The mathematics of deep learning is profound, beautiful, and powerful beyond reason. Developing the “theory of everything” for large neural networks will be critical to taking AI to the next level. Instead, this AI will allow everyone\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Greg Yang (@TheGregYang) July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n Yang had left Microsoft Research in May for the “next adventure.”<\/p>\n Now I’m excited for my next adventure. Stay tuned \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n \u2014 Greg Yang (@TheGregYang) May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n One of the first tweets from the company’s official Twitter account posed a profound question:<\/p>\n What are the most fundamental unanswered questions?<\/p>\n \u2014 xAI (@xai) July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n Musk and more than 12,1000 Twitter users responded:<\/p>\n And what are the most fundamental unknown questions? <\/p>\n Once you know the right question to ask, the answer is often the easy part, as my hero, Douglas Adams, would say. pic.twitter.com\/Bo6v8E1Ooq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, of whom web site<\/a> mentions a “stealth initiation” after working at Google with future xAI colleague Christian Szegedy<\/a>shared the following shortly after the announcement.<\/p>\n Solve math and understand the universe<\/p>\n \u2014 Yuhuai (Tony) Wu (@Yuhu_ai_) July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n Jimmy Ba, another xAI affiliate, includes a Twitter profile disclaimer<\/a> that “All my posts are generated by GPT”.<\/p>\n Will XAI develop something bigger than the next ChatGPT alternative? Only time will tell.<\/p>\nWhat is xAI?<\/h2>\n
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