Elon Musk also points to the race for the artificial intelligence (AI). The second richest man in the world has created a new company that he has named X.AI and in which he appears as the only director, according to what has been said ‘The Wall Street Journal‘.
The name of the company suggests the entrepreneur’s well-known ambitions to create a off-road app called X. This same Wednesday, Musk changed the official name of Twitter —from the company, not from the social network— to X Corp. This ‘app’ would be similar to the multitasking approach that wechat in China, which is used both to chat and to make online purchases, video calls, play games or make an appointment at the doctor.
Musk’s strategy has been brewing for a few months. In recent weeks, the US press has reported that the businessman has signed Igor Babuschkina scientist at the state-of-the-art AI lab DeepMind -property of alphabetthe matrix of Google— and has purchased some 10,000 GPUs, the high-powered graphics cards needed to develop the language models that underpin AI applications like the popular chatbot ChatGPT.
From stopping AI to boosting it
With this decision, Musk plans to launch himself into a business career now led by Open AI, the creator of ChatGPT. The businessman co-founded this company —now owned by Microsoft— in 2015, but in 2018 he withdrew from the project after losing an internal battle for his control in front of his current CEO, sam altman.
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Since then, Musk has been an outspoken critic of OpenAI, a criticism of his former colleagues that has been heightened by the meteoric popularity of ChatGPT, a chatbot he has accused of being politically correct. On March 22, Musk signed a controversial open letter in which he asked, together with more than a thousand experts, to suspend the development of AI for six months due to its potential risks.
reid hoffmanfounder of LinkedIn and also a promoter of OpenAI, denounced that Musk dart. “Some of the signatures are not well-intentioned, like ‘everyone slow down so I can speed up,'” he told CNBC. Barely three weeks later, that suspicion has been confirmed.