Elon Musk Launches 'xAI'; Key Things To Know About New AI Startup That Aims To 'Understand Reality'

JE Technology Desk: Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk recently unveiled its long-awaited AI startup xAI with a team of experts from top US tech firms, including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. Led by Musk, the same man who has voiced concerns about the ill-use of AI on several occasions, xAI will aim to "understand reality".

According to the company's official website, the goal is to "understand the true nature of the universe". Here are the top things you must know about the newly-founded AI firm.

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What does xAI mean?

As per IBM, XAI is the short form for Explainable artificial intelligence. It is a "set of methods" that lets users interpret and "trust" the results returned by these algorithms and is used to define an AI model, its biases and impacts. However, we do not know whether this will fit in the case of Musk's xAI. Users can ask their queries in a Twitter Spaces chat slated to be held Friday (July 14) with the team, NDTV highlights.

Reportedly founded in April

The Verge reported that Musk laid the founding stone of the xAI in April in Nevada. The Tesla CEO was listed as the director, and Jared Birchall, touted as the 'right-hand man' of Musk by the media, was labelled as the secretary.

10,000 GPUs

TIME Magazine reported that Musk purchased around 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in March, a requirement to build large AI systems. Further, Financial Times reported that the billionaire intended to draw funding from Tesla and SpaceX investors in April.

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Separate from X Corp

xAI is a separate entity from X Corp, the company's website claims. But it will work in close liaison with "X (Twitter), Tesla and other companies" to achieve its vision.

Musk and Team

Other than Musk, the team of xAI includes Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zihang Dai.

Back to the start, the race to join the AI bandwagon was sparked after the development of the world-famous AI model ChatGPT last year. Developed by Sam Altman-led OpenAI, it can answer user queries in a conversational style.