{"id":1970859,"date":"2023-07-12T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-announces-new-ai-company\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T14:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:21:40","slug":"elon-musk-announces-new-ai-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-announces-new-ai-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk unveils fresh AI venture."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-announces-new-ai-company%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1970859&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/roy-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Francis<\/a><br \/>11:18 AM \u2013 Wednesday, July 12, 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> took to Twitter to announce his new <strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> company called <strong>xAI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing formation of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@xAI<\/a> to understand reality<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1679164661869182976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Musk announced that the purpose behind the company is to \u201cunderstand reality\u201d but did not offer any further details or explanation. According to the website, \u201cthe goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The website lists the team for the company which is headed by Musk as well as other big names such as Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zihang Dai, all of whom have had previous experience with AI companies such as OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind.<\/p>\n<p>The team of xAI is also being advised by Dan Hendrycks, the researcher who leads the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit organization that is aimed at reducing \u201csocietal-scale risks associated with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk had previously been a major part of the AI world, he had cofounded OpenAI in 2015, but walked away in 2018. He has since criticized the company for becoming a \u201cclosed source, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-launches-new-effort-to-fight-woke-artificial-intelligence\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Launches New Effort To Fight Woke Artificial Intelligence\">maximum-profit company effectively controlled<\/a> by Microsoft.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it \u201cOpen\u201d AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Not what I intended at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1626516035863212034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Musk has also given warnings that AI is \u201cone of the biggest risks\u201d to civilization and has pressed for it to be regulated because of how little we know about it so far and that there are currently no real regulations in place for AI companies.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has previously dropped hints that he was starting his own AI company. In April, filings by Musk indicated that he had founded the company in Nevada, later in an interview with Tucker Carlson, he said that he was working on a product called \u201cTruthGPT\u201d to counter \u201cChatGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The website of xAI says that the new company is separate from X Corp, another company owned by Musk which was meant to be a successor to Twitter, \u201cbut will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although there is little information about the new company as of now, the xAI team said that they will be hosting a Twitter Spaces discussion on July 14<sup>th<\/sup> where listeners can \u201cmeet the team\u201d and ask whatever questions they might have for them, although no specific time was given.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. 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