Elon Musk finally unveiled the team of engineers from the major American technology companies who will be working on his long-promised artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday. He aims to use this team to compete with ChatGPT.
Musk, the owner of Twitter and CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O), will serve as the company’s chief executive. Musk has previously stated that the development of AI should be put on hold and that the industry requires oversight.
“Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality,” Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The website said xAI will hold a Twitter Spaces event on July 14.
Igor Babuschkin, a former DeepMind engineer, Tony Wu, a former Google (GOOGL.O) research scientist, Christian Szegedy, a former Microsoft research scientist, and Greg Yang make up the xAI team.
According to a state filing, Musk registered X.AI Corp, a Nevada-incorporated company, in March.
Musk is listed as the company’s only director while Jared Birchall, the family office’s managing director, is listed as the secretary.
The billionaire had said in April that he would launch TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI to rival Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Bing AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.
Generative AI caught the limelight with OpenAI’s launch of popular chatbot ChatGPT, which came in November last year, ahead of the launch of Bard and Bing AI.
Dan Hendrycks, who will advise the xAI team, currently serves as the director of the Center for AI Safety and his work revolves around the risks of AI.
Musk’s new company is separate from X Corp, but will work closely with Twitter, Tesla, and other companies, according to the website.
xAI said it is recruiting experienced engineers and researchers in the Bay Area.
Reporting by Akash Sriram, Chavi Mehta, Yuvraj Malik and Aditya Soni in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber.