Elon Musk debuts his new AI startup xAI

Elon Musk, the co-founder and chief of Tesla (TSLA), SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company announced his artificial intelligence startup xAI he started to rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. His newest start-up, xAI launched on Wednesday with the goal “to understand the true nature of the universe.” The blog post said: “Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. You can meet the team and ask us questions during a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, July 14th. Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. We have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, in particular the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We further introduced innovative techniques and analyses such as Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, and muTransfer. We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.”