San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) company called xAI that aims to “understand the true nature of the universe”. “Announcing the formation of @xAI to understand reality,” Musk tweeted.
Declaration of formation @XAI Understanding Reality – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2023
According to its website, the goal is to understand the true nature of the universe.
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The team is led by Musk and includes team members who have worked at other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research and Google’s DeepMind.
The website lists Igor Babushkin, Manuel Kroes, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szedi, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordin, Kyle Kosik, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zhihang Dai as members of the xAI team.
“Finally the mathematics of deep learning is deep, beautiful, and absurdly effective. Developing a “theory of everything” for large neural networks will be central to taking AI to the next level,” xAI co-founder Yang tweeted.
“Conversely, this AI will enable everyone to understand our mathematical universe in ways that were previously unimaginable,” he added.
The xAI team will host a Twitter space on July 14, where audiences can “meet the team and ask us questions”.
