Elon Musk founded his artificial intelligence company, X.AI

Elon Musk Also refers to the race on artificial intelligence (AI). The second richest man in the world has created a new company he called X.AI Which appears in it as the only way out, according to what was said.The Wall Street Journal“.

The name of the company refers to the well-known ambitions of an entrepreneur to create a An off-road app called X. On Wednesday itself, Musk Change 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 wechat In China, which is used to chat, make online purchases, video calls, play games, or make an appointment with a doctor.

Musk’s strategy has been brewing for a few months now. In recent weeks, the American press has reported that the businessman has signed Igor Babushkina scientist in a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence lab Deep mind -Properties the alphabetmatrix Googleand purchased nearly 10,000 GPUs, the high-powered graphics cards needed to develop language models that support AI applications such as the popular chatbot chat.

From stopping artificial intelligence to enhancing it

With this decision, Musk plans to start a business career, which he is now leading 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 control over his current CEO, Sam Altman.

Since then, Musk has been an outspoken critic of OpenAI, a criticism of his former colleagues that was heightened by the blatant popularity of ChatGPT, a chatbot he accused of being politically correct. On March 22, Musk signed on Controversial open letter In it, he asked, along with more than a thousand experts, to suspend the development of artificial intelligence for a period of six months due to its potential risks.

Reid HoffmanFounder linkedin And also a promoter of OpenAI, Musk dart denounced it. He told CNBC that “some of the signings are not bona fide, like ‘everyone slows down so I can speed up.'” Barely three weeks later, that suspicion was confirmed.