Tech billionaire Elon Musk wants to get involved in the current hype surrounding artificial intelligence. The Twitter owner and CEO of electric car maker Tesla has founded a company called X.AI in Nevada, according to a state company database.
Musk and his chief of staff Jared Birchall are listed as responsible. The “Wall Street Journal” reported on the company, which was already registered on March 9th, on Saturday night.
In the past few days, indications of Musk’s increased activity in artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence / AI) have accumulated. The Financial Times reported on Friday that he had already found investors for a new AI company.
The website “Business Insider” wrote that he had thousands of graphics cards from the supplier Nvidia bought. The technology is often used for applications based on artificial intelligence. Musk downplayed that in a recent interview: Everyone was buying a lot of graphics cards.
Musk warned of the risks of software with artificial intelligence
At the same time, Musk has publicly warned of the risks of software with artificial intelligence and was a prominent signatory of an open letter at the end of March, in which a six-month development break for the technology was suggested.
Musk was among the founders of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, but left more than four years ago and is now a critic of the start-up.
Musk has had a humanoid robot developed at Tesla for years, which he says could become more important than the car business over time. (dpa)
