There were several signs that pointed to X.AI, although of course, not to the name itself, but to what it represents. And by the way, one is also another example of the degree of hypocrisy that one of the most controversial and mediatic people of today can demonstrate. I am speaking, of course, of Elon Musk and, as you have already seen in the headline of this news, X.AI is the company that he has established and with which he intends to compete with OpenAI.
As revealed by The Wall Street Journal, X.AI was incorporated on March 9 in the state of Nevada, United States, with Elon Musk as director and his perennial number two, Jared Birchall, as company secretary. He has also revealed that one of the company’s priorities is find investorsfor which the sale of 100 million shares of the company has been authorized, which, however, would remain unlisted private, Musk’s favorite formula for his companies.
During the last months it has emerged that Musk was trying to attract talent from other technology companies dedicated to artificial intelligence, mainly from OpenAI, although his efforts in this regard would not have been as fruitful as he would have liked. Also, a few days ago, it was leaked that Musk had made a great investment when purchasing 10,000 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUsa real beast that, as you can deduce from its name, has one of its strengths in tasks related to artificial intelligence.
Thus, more and more signals were added pointing in that direction, so that the confirmation indicated by TWSJ has not come as a surprise. Furthermore, this is not the first time that Elon Musk has taken an interest in the artificial intelligence sector, as fWas one of the founding partners precisely of OpenAIwhile is true that He left it in 2018 after a power struggle in which he clashed with the current CEO of the companySam Altman, something that would explain both the animosity he feels towards the technology company and the CEO and his interest in competing with the creators of ChatGPT.
Although we hardly have data on X.AI, both rumors and common sense indicate that its intention is that, to compete with OpenAI, which brings me to what I mentioned before, the deep level of hypocrisy of Musk. Let’s remember that just a few weeks ago, along with other well-known names from the worlds of science and technology, he signed a manifesto in which companies in the sector were asked to step on the brakes, stopping all development of AI for six months. , pending increasingly necessary regulations.
So, it is striking that at the same time that he signed said document, he was constituting X.AI and trying to attract talent from the companies with which it intends to compete. Are you really worried about the future of artificial intelligence or were you just trying to buy some time to compete in better conditions? Maybe I’m being rude, but I’m quite clear about what I think about it. What do you think?
