Billionaire Elon Musk has introduced his artificial intelligence company “xAI” to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGpt and Google.
According to the site xAI, the owner of Tesla will manage the company separately from others, but the technology that will be developed will benefit his companies, including Twitter, the social network that at the moment has to face the rivalry of Threads, the platform newly created by Meta.
“xAI’s goal is to understand the true nature of the universe,” Musk writes on Twitter, adding that the new company’s goal is to “understand reality” and answer life’s big questions.
The startup consists of former researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Tesla and the University of Toronto. The team is led by Dan Hendrycks, who currently heads the Center for AI Security, an organization based in San Francisco.
Hendrycks was one of the signatories of the June letter to world leaders, which warned that AI is a threat to human existence on a par with pandemics and nuclear war.
Musk has also repeatedly warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence, calling it “our greatest existential threat”. The billionaire co-founded OpenAi in 2015 and left in 2018 to focus on Tesla.
