Musk Allies to Raise Up to $12 Billion for xAI Chips
Digest more
A dynamic is emerging among Elon Musk’s Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, fueling talk of consolidation. That isn’t necessarily a problem for Tesla shareholders.
The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, a former Pentagon employee says.
Elon Musk has said that he was living in denial over advancement in Artificial Intelligence while responding to a user's post on X.
In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”
His comment was in response to a post by Mario Nawfal, who quoted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Last year, Huang had called Musk a “superhuman” after Musk’s company, xAI, built one of the fastest AI-training supercomputers,
The xAI founder said the very notion humans actually once managed an economy will seem very quaint in the future, like “cavemen throwing sticks into a fire.”
Elon Musk launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team made up of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his ...
Elon Musk lauded Google Gemini for achieving "gold medal" status at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving five of six problems. Google DeepMind's AI made history as the first machine to reach this level.