Elon Musk’s new AI firm goals ‘to know the true nature of the universe’

Elon Musk has a brand new AI firm. A web site has appeared for xAI, which is able to embark on the self-described mission to “perceive the true nature of the universe.” The announcement comes after submitting paperwork revealed the existence of an organization known as “X.AI Corp” earlier this yr. Musk additionally mentioned in an April interview that he needed to start out a enterprise for “most truth-seeking AI that tries to know the character of the universe” that “hopefully does extra good than hurt.”

Not a lot else is thought but about Musk’s newest enterprise. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO and Twitter Chairman tweeted at the moment, “Asserting formation of @xAI to know actuality.” The corporate webpage notes that the workforce will host a Twitter Areas chat on Friday, July 14th.

Musk’s earlier feedback about an AI startup prompt he needed “a 3rd choice” to problem ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Google. He reportedly purchased hundreds of GPUs earlier this yr for a Twitter-related AI challenge. It isn’t but clear whether or not the 2 initiatives are associated.

The web site lists veterans of DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Analysis, Microsoft Analysis, Tesla and the College of Toronto as engaged on the challenge. “Collectively we contributed a few of the most generally used strategies within the discipline, particularly the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the invention of adversarial examples,” the xAI web site reads. “We additional launched revolutionary methods and analyses akin to Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Measurement Scaling, and μTransfer. Now we have labored on and led the event of a few of the largest breakthroughs within the discipline together with AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.”

Along with Musk, the listed workforce members embrace Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai.