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Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has established a caller company, seemingly to make artificial quality (AI), according to a caller company filing.
Company volition beryllium headed by Musk
The applicable filing, dated March 9 but recently publicizied, lists Musk arsenic manager of a institution called X.AI. It besides lists Musk’s associate, Jared Birchall, arsenic secretary.
It additionally indicates that X.AI has been established successful the authorities of Nevada and that the institution presently has $100,000 of capital.
The filing does not sanction immoderate different employees oregon institution plans, nor does it explicitly authorities that the institution volition enactment with AI beyond what is implied successful the name.
The missive “X” is being utilized successful respective of Musk’s concern endeavors. Twitter Inc. was recently renamed to X Corp., and that institution is successful crook owned by different institution called X Holding Corp. Those decisions look to beryllium portion of Musk’s plans to make an “everything app” called X, which volition blend societal networking and outgo tools.
The “X” naming inclination dates backmost to Musk’s aboriginal fiscal firm, X.com, which was founded successful 1999 and became PayPal successful 2000.
Musk’s engagement with AI
Musk has a agelong past of engagement successful the AI industry. He founded OpenAI, the institution down ChatGPT, successful 2015 but near the steadfast successful 2018.
More caller reports from February suggest that Musk has recruited Igor Babuschkin — formerly of Google’s Deepmind AI part — to make an alternate to ChatGPT.
Despite his involvement successful AI, Musk is 1 of respective experts who person signed a letter urging for impermanent restraints connected AI training. Such restraints would assistance debar immoderate chartless risks and guarantee “a agelong AI summer,” the missive says.
There is nary denotation that Musk’s AI efforts volition marque usage of cryptocurrency. In fact, Musk suggested successful March that helium is now much funny successful AI than cryptocurrency — though it is unclear whether that connection was made successful jest.
Musk has not publically commented connected the caller steadfast X.AI.
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