Billionaire’s xAI start up unveils generative AI model in challenge to Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google
Elon Musk, right, and Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks on November 2nd. Musk’s start-up xAI has released its first AI model. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA/BloombergElon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI has released its first AI model, as the tech billionaire looks to take on OpenAI, Google and Meta with a sassy chatbot that is tightly integrated with X, formerly Twitter.
“It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems,” xAI said as it announced a “very early” testing version of Grok.Vodafone hopes sale of Spanish unit will ring in turnaround changes Musk, who said last week that eventually “AI will be able to do everything” and render human work obsolete, formed xAI earlier this year. His team of engineers, who formerly worked at Google DeepMind and Microsoft, has been racing to catch up with more established rivals such as OpenAI, which Musk cofounded in 2015 but left three years later.
However, xAI also admitted it is behind OpenAI, which in March released its latest GPT-4 model, which has shown “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks such as the US bar exam, and is already being embedded into apps by partner companies.
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