The artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI startup will be integrated into the X social network platform. The model is also available as a standalone application, Mr. Musk said in a post on X.
The billionaire also said xAI has released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, after making it available to all users who subscribe to X Premium+, according to Reuters.
Startup xAI aims to create AI tools that “assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge,” and Grok has been designed to answer questions with humor.
Billionaire Musk, who has criticized big tech companies’ AI development efforts as being censored, launched xAI in July. He calls it “maximum truth-seeking AI” that tries to understand the nature of the universe to compete with Google’s Bard and Bing AI. Microsoft-owned
“Grok has access to real-time information through the X platform, which is a big advantage over other models,” Mr. Musk added.
X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter owned by Musk, is separate from xAI, but the two companies work closely together. xAI also partners with Musk’s electric car maker Tesla and other companies.
Last week, billionaire Musk told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that he thought AI was “the most disruptive force in history”. At the conference An to Summit The first global AI platform in Bletchley Park (UK), Musk believes that AI technology will be able to “do everything” and make jobs as we know them today a thing of the past.
In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. OpenAI has created a craze for AI technology worldwide. However, this billionaire left the OpenAI board of directors in 2018.
