Elon Musk is planning to launch an artificial intelligence start-up, supposedly named X.AI, to compete with Microsoft-backed Open AI, according to reports.
Reports say that Musk incorporated a company named X.AI on March 9, of which he is the only named director. The company’s secretary is listed as Jared Birchall, the ex-Morgan Stanley banker who manages Musk’s wealth and is CEO of Neuralink. Igor Babuschkin, a Silicon Valley AI senior research engineer from Google’s sister company Deepmind has been hired to head the effort at X.AI, according to reports. Musk recently tweeted the letter “X” and sent social media into a frenzy. According to court records, he merged Twitter Inc with X Corp, one of his many holding companies with the same letter.
Musk holds top positions at Tesla and Twitter, along with being the founder of SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company. This move would push Musk to get into a further big development in the technology world.
Musk, along with a bunch of public leaders, signed a petition to pause the development of AI as they considered rapid development in AI a danger for the world.
Musk is also planning to use Twitter’s data for training the new company’s language model, certain reports say.
