Elon Musk is getting back into the AI ​​business with his startup X.AI

The best informed already knew it: the position ofElon Musk in favor of a moratorium or even a suspension of research on AI was above all a posture. The star entrepreneur indeed had trouble with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, since the latter had refused to allow his company to be bought out by Musk (co-founder of OpenAI) in 2018. The dismissal of the OpenAI Board of Directors had led to Musk’s departure. Following this episode, the estrangement was now recorded between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, Musk also constantly criticizing the “closure” of OpenAI (originally Open Source project), and the fact that the AI ​​ChatGPT does not is not truly free from its “politically correct” shackles.

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The new artificial intelligence company of @elonmusk.https://t.co/DAIFpSVKOn Corp. is incorporated in Nevada, according to a state filing. Elon is the director of the company, and Jared Birchall is its secretary. Filing was made last month. 100 million… pic.twitter.com/XADe1LFgsy

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The most obvious proof that Musk did not really intend to slow down the pace in the AI ​​sector has just come out today: the Financial Times tells us that Elon Musk has created a company in the state of Nevada of AI dubbed X.AI. There startup X.AI was officially founded on March 9 and registration documents indicate that Musk is indeed the CEO of the company while Jared Birchall, a former Morgan Stanley banker, has been appointed as company secretary. startup. Incidentally, Jared Birchall is also the manager of Elon Musk’s immense fortune.

The financial news outlet further claims that Igor Babuschkin and Manuel Kroiss, two former high-level engineers from DeepMind (Google’s AI division) have joined X.AI. Elon Musk would also have acquired 10,000 graphics processors for his new startup. A moratorium on AI…. Really ?