Elon Musk Launches X.AI To Fight ChatGPT Woke AI, Says Twitter Is...
Elon Musk is a world-renowned tech billionaire who has recently launched his new company X.AI. The name "X" is significant to Musk as it was the name of his startup X.com, which later became PayPal, and the corporate name of Twitter as disclosed in court documents last week. Musk has been recruiting AI engineers from competitors and possibly buying thousands of GPUs for his new venture.
X.AI aims to fight against ChatGPT woke AI, which Musk co-founded under OpenAI with Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman and PayPal alums LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel in 2015. However, since the ChatGPT's launch, Musk has been in a dispute with Altman over censorship of ChatGPT's responses and has stated, "The danger of training AI to be woke - in other words, lie - is deadly."
Musk has been an advocate for a pause across industry-wide AI development following OpenAI's release of the more advanced GPT-4 and signed a Future of Life Institute petition, which garnered more than 26, 000 signatures. Despite this, he has since moved ahead with his own AI plans.
In his April 11 Twitter Spaces, Musk confirmed that Twitter is now at less than one-fifth its pre-acquisition size, down from a workforce of just under 8,000 last October to 1,500 today. He recently valued the company at $20 billion, less than half of what he paid and said he regretted needing to sell a lot of Tesla stock to close the deal because he knew he overpaid. Although he acknowledged it's been a rough start, he now feels the company has since turned a corner.
Musk is pushing hard for paid verification as he fast-tracks pivoting Twitter into an everything app, with payments. Whether Twitter integrates GPT-models to drive commerce for AI-generated fashion or finds a way to use the technology to defeat the spam bots that have been inundating the platform, Musk told listeners to stay tuned.
Musk said he has no plans to move Twitter out of San Francisco yet and would like to turn one of the Twitter buildings into a homeless shelter once the building owner lets them. According to the Forbes real-time billionaires list, Musk is the second wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $187.9 billion.
