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Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the formation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence, after months of teasing plans to build a rival to ChatGPT.

The company, called x.AI, unveiled a website and a team of a dozen staffers. The new company will be led by Musk, according to the website, and “will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.”

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[–] danhasnolife 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You’re thinking of the tunnel-digging company that bilks investors. This is the one that uses AI to bilk investors.

[–] Candelestine 12 points 2 years ago

Perhaps he wants in-house chatbots to keep Twitter afloat.

[–] parachaye 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man's surprisingly obsessed with calling stuff "X"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Lots of us were. In the elementary school.

[–] OutrageousUmpire 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in April, Musk said teased plans for his new AI venture. “We’re going to start something which I call TruthGPT,” he said, describing it as a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that “cares about understanding the universe.”

Sigh. When did this guy turn into a clown?

[–] QHC 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How many companies can one person effectively run at a time? Doesn't Musk also have smaller companies like Boring and Solar City to manage, on top of giants like Tesla and SpaceX?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only way he runs anything is into the ground. The companies run better the less he is involved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of musk but I have to say he gets a lot of things done. He promises really big stuff and does not deliver half of those but it's still something.

When he decides to build a tesla factory it gets done in reasonable time. We need people like him in charge of public infrastructure projects, especially in Germany.

The rest of him is shit though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

He was born rich and mostly tanks whatever he runs. All of his infrastructure idea like the tesla tunnels / ineffective smoke inhalation death traps are just worse and less effective versions of existing technology.

His electric trucks are a bad idea, the tunnels are a bad idea, his electric dock is equally bad, etc.

His incentives are to rip you off. Not transport of.

While we're at it, teslas are of course terrible cars.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Given the fuss he made about OpenAI being closed source (a case of broken clocks), it will be interesting to see if this is open source (doubt)

[–] Chocrates 4 points 2 years ago

If he was funding it and putting someone that knows what they are doing in charge, that would be one thing.
This is gonna go so bad.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That name is so bad...

I think even Meta's name Threads is better.