Elon Musk is trying to increase one forty-fourth of a Twitter for his AI firm, xAI. In different phrases, the person behind Tesla, SpaceX and X is looking for $1 billion in funding for his subsequent enterprise.
In response to an SEC submitting, Musk has raised about $135 million so removed from 4 unnamed buyers, with the primary sale occurring on November 29. Which means he nonetheless has about $865 million to go to satisfy his $1 billion objective.
Thus far, xAI is engaged on Grok, which is Musk’s reply to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard or Anthropic’s Claude. Per its web site, Grok could have a “rebellious streak” and can reply “spicy” questions that different AI bots don’t interact with. The product has solely been in improvement for 2 months, however will supposedly be launched in beta quickly to X Premium+ subscribers. A extra necessary differentiator for the bot is that it plans to replace with real-time data posted on X. However for this function to set Grok aside from the competitors, it should be good sufficient to differentiate between actual information on X and misinformation.
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI, however stepped down from the board in 2018; currently, Musk has been essential of OpenAI, particularly because it fired, then re-hired, CEO Sam Altman in November, sparking mass confusion and concern throughout the AI trade.
It’s no small feat to lift one other $865 million, however as probably the most highly effective folks in tech, Musk is unquestionably up for the problem… as long as potential buyers haven’t been scared off by his (mis)administration of X.