Elon Musk has launched his long-awaited synthetic intelligence start-up xAI in a bid to construct an alternative choice to ChatGPT.

The Twitter proprietor has introduced in a workforce of engineers from different tech companies he’s hoping to problem within the artificial intelligence sphere.

Musk has warned for months about AI’s potential for “civilisational destruction”, arguing {that a} race amongst corporations resembling Google and Microsoft to develop the know-how ought to be stopped to permit time for rules on the tech to be drawn up.

The cause for the launch of xAI is “to understand the true nature of the universe”, stated Musk, who additionally co-founded OpenAI however later left the start-up credited with sparking the generative AI frenzy.

Dan Hendrycks, who serves because the director of the Center for AI Safety, a non-profit that goals to scale back the dangers posed by the know-how, will probably be an adviser to the brand new firm.

The start-up’s workforce contains a number of former engineers and scientists from Alphabet-owned Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

“We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar… GPT-3.5, and GPT-4,” the start-up stated on its web site.

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The firm, which is in search of skilled engineers and researchers to hitch its workforce as technical employees within the Bay Area, will maintain a Twitter Spaces occasion on 14 July.

Musk’s start-up will work carefully along with his different corporations together with Twitter and Tesla, in response to the web site.

Tesla shares confirmed little response to the news and had been buying and selling 1.5% larger, an indication that buyers weren’t fearful the
start-up will probably be a possible distraction for Musk.

In March, the billionaire registered a agency named X.AI Corp, included in Nevada, in response to a state submitting.

The agency lists Musk as the only real director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk’s household workplace, as a secretary.

The Financial Times reported in April that Musk had secured 1000’s of high-powered GPU processors from Nvidia for the venture.