© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacts during a conversation with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Britain November 2, 2023. Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence startup will be integrated into its X social media platform and will also be available as a standalone app, he said in a post on Sunday.
The billionaire also said xAI launched its first ai model, a bot called Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers on Friday.
The startup aims to create artificial intelligence tools that “help humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge” and Grok has been designed to answer questions with a little ingenuity.
Musk, who has criticized Big tech‘s ai efforts as being plagued by censorship, launched xAI in July, calling it an “ultimate truth-seeking ai” that attempts to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google’s Bard and Microsoft. (NASDAQ . NASDAQ 🙂 Bing ai.
“Grok has real-time access to information through the X platform, which is a big advantage over other models,” Musk added.
X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter and owned by Musk, is separate from xAI, but the companies work closely together. xAI also works with its electric car maker Tesla (NASDAQ and other companies.
Last week, Musk told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that he thought ai was “the most disruptive force in history.” technology will be able to “do it all” and make employment as we know it today a thing of the past, Musk speculated at the first ai Global Security Summit, in Bletchley Park, England.
In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has created a frenzy for generative ai technology around the world, but resigned from the board of directors in 2018.
