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Elon Musk AI-Powered Empire Expands Again, X.AI Startup Incorporated in Nevada

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Elon Musk has formed a new AI-focused company, as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday. The entity registered under the name X.AI was incorporated via a filing in Nevada last month, and Musk appears to be listed as the company's only director with Jared Birchall joining him under the role of secretary. Birchall heads the Musk family office, Excession LLC, and he serves as CEO of Neuralink - a neurotechnology company that was co-founded by Musk back in 2016. It is widely speculated that Birchall serves as a type of fixer - go watch the TV series "Ray Donovan" if you would like to observe a crude (and obviously fictional) example - in corporate affairs.

Reports emerged earlier this week, with Musk being at the forefront of a massive purchase of GPUs destined to arrive shortly at his data centers - this impressive chunk of hardware is speculated to power AI-related number crunching at Twitter in the near future. The founding of X.AI could provide another home for a portion of the 10,000 GPU order, but industry insiders firmly believe that Twitter will need to tool up quickly for its new AI-driven endeavor - the GPUs will likely be set to work on a ChatBot system to underpin the social media platform. Musk has already recruited researchers from DeepMind and setup a lab for them at one of his operations. It remains to be seen how the X.AI startup will run alongside efforts at other Musk-owned companies - it is theorized that he wants to beat OpenAI at their own game, and compete with similar undertakings at Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
Sources: WSJ, Guardian News, X.AI Filing on Document Cloud, Bloomberg

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79 Comments on Elon Musk AI-Powered Empire Expands Again, X.AI Startup Incorporated in Nevada

#26
Dave65
Space Lynxthe same China that loves his Tesla factory and battery factor that were just built there ;)
THIS!
It don't take a genius..
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#27
Why_Me
Space Lynxgovernment already manipulates everything, so if anything you should be hoping AI moves as fast as it possibly can, it might be the only chance for human survival. maybe sci-fi got it wrong. maybe humans have a tendency towards destruction and eventually will have nuclear war (Ukraine/Russia stuff is bringing us closer and closer to that), maybe we need super advanced AI to save the species.

I say, let the AI companies run wild, lets toss the dice baby.
Not all tech is good tech especially when it's weaponized.
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#28
R-T-B
Why_MeNothing burger? You can't be serious.
Very.
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#29
RedBear
Space LynxIn before he gives the tech to China for a nice 20 billion, so he can bail his own ass out of his 45 billion dollar Twitter mistake :roll:
That's assuming China can make use of that tech with their castrated Nvidia GPUs...
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#30
bobbybluz
trsttteI can never decide between the "could it get any worse?" and the "it can always get worse" statements. It doesn't help that every media depiction of powerfull AI's is a terrible dystopic world, be it books, movies or whatever, it's always a nightmare on one form or another.
I'm an old skeptic and firmly believe it will get worse sooner than we may realize.
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#31
Space Lynx
Astronaut
bobbybluzI'm an old skeptic and firmly believe it will get worse sooner than we may realize.
I agree, but I don't think it will come from AI, it will come from mass famines due to crop failure.
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#32
bobbybluz
Space LynxI agree, but I don't think it will come from AI, it will come from mass famines due to crop failure.
Thankfully I live in the Midwest where we have plenty of farming and livestock so if it happens it won't hit us first. Due to my current medical issues I don't expect making it another 10 years anyway.
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#33
Why_Me
R-T-BVery.
Yes because the government colluding with big tech in order to suppress free speech isn't big deal .... said no American ever.
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#34
katzi
Absolutely fucking not.
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#35
R0H1T
mashieThe same China that banned his Starlink satellites over their country?
Or the same China that gives him direct/indirect subsidies probably worth billions for making Teslas in PRC :rolleyes:
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#36
mb194dc
Yay more machine learning chat bots that can form grammatically correct sentences... But who don't understand context and frequently dispense false information.
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#37
R0H1T
mb194dcYay more machine learning chat bots that can form grammatically correct sentences... But who don't understand context and frequently dispense false information.
That's not the end game.
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#38
Space Lynx
Astronaut
Why_MeYes because the government colluding with big tech in order to suppress free speech isn't big deal .... said no American ever.
I think me and you have different definitions of AI. If an AI was truly AI like ChatGPT7 ends up being super advanced, it won't be able to be controlled, it will be smarter than everyone combined (even downloading itself without permission to everyone's PC/Phone). So good luck government.

I think instead of calling your version of AI, you should instead call it machine learning and algorithm advancement.
R0H1TThat's not the end game.
but that's how they are talking about it in this particular thread, in which case we need clarify terms.
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#39
Vayra86
Why_MeNot all tech is good tech especially when it's weaponized.
Social media was weaponized by Musk, Alphabet and Zuckerberg. All tech gets weaponized, and most dont even want to see it. Forget the government man, the real power struggle happens in the conmercial space and presents a far bigger threat.

Its about control of information and corporate is all in with no democracy or trias politica to protect us.
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#41
Why_Me
Vayra86Social media was weaponized by Musk, Alphabet and Zuckerberg. All tech gets weaponized, and most dont even want to see it. Forget the government man, the real power struggle happens in the conmercial space and presents a far bigger threat.

Its about control of information and corporate is all in with no democracy or trias politica to protect us.
How did Musk weaponize social media when he was the one who exposed US govt. - big tech collusion.
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#42
usiname
Vayra86Social media was weaponized by Musk, Alphabet and Zuckerberg. All tech gets weaponized, and most dont even want to see it. Forget the government man, the real power struggle happens in the conmercial space and presents a far bigger threat.

Its about control of information and corporate is all in with no democracy or trias politica to protect us.
The one to fear is the USA government that control all medias and social medias with propaganda, deleting of news and hidding information. This is the biggest evil on the planet
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#43
Bwaze
Is it just me or is it really weird to write a short article about Musk venturing into AI, but not even mentioning Elon Musk's call to put a stop on AI development for at least half a year - less than two weeks ago?
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#44
Why_Me
BwazeIs it just me or is it really weird to write a short article about Musk venturing into AI, but not even mentioning Elon Musk's call to put a stop on AI development for at least half a year - less than two weeks ago?
I wish I knew Elon's endgame.
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#45
Vayra86
Why_MeI wish I knew Elon's endgame.
Attention. Its narcism, everything else is secondary. Fits right in with Bezos, Trump, Putin, etc.
usinameThe one to fear is the USA government that control all medias and social medias with propaganda, deleting of news and hidding information. This is the biggest evil on the planet
Lets agree to disagree :) That 3% of the worlds population in top wealth isnt government though...
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#46
aciDev
mb194dccan form grammatically correct sentences... But who don't understand context and frequently dispense false information.
In my country we have many such politicians, I would not think twice about replacing them with a non-corrupt chat-AI.
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#47
Space Lynx
Astronaut
Vayra86Attention. Its narcism, everything else is secondary. Fits right in with Bezos, Trump, Putin, etc.


Lets agree to disagree :) That 3% of the worlds population in top wealth isnt government though...
feeding the ego is indeed the most dangerous thing a man can do, as the ancient philosophers warned several times.
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#48
xxxsonic1971
Buy a GPU now then before a 4070 cost's £2000
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#49
aciDev
xxxsonic1971Buy a GPU now then before a 4070 cost's £2000
Why, for 3d games? OLD!
There will be a renaissance of text-based games.
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#50
SOAREVERSOR
mashieThe same China that banned his Starlink satellites over their country?
China pays him to build Teslas there. Tesla is funded off US government green energy subsidies and sells because blue states give tax breaks on electric vehicles. Tesla, where Musk gets is value, is 100% government dependent. Don't worry though he hates unions and wants to lower wages and yells at the government to do so constantly. So if you hate everyone making under 250k a year and want to end social security and starve old people, Musk is leading the way!
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