xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted that the company’s mission is to “understand reality” without further details or explanation.
According to the website, “xAI’s goal is to understand the true nature of the universe. The team is led by Elon Musk and includes team members who have worked with other big names in AI, including OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and DeepMind (which recently folded into Google).
In addition to Musk, the website lists Igor Babushkin, Manuel Kroes, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szedi, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordin, Kyle Kosik, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang and Jihang Dai. xAI’s team is currently being advised by Dan Hendrycks, a researcher who currently leads the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit organization that aims to “reduce social-scale risks associated with AI.”
@xAI team will host a Twitter Spaces discussion on July 14, where listeners can “meet the team and ask us questions,” the website says. No specific time was given. According to xAI’s website, the company is “different” from Musk’s ultra-X Corp but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla and other companies.
Musk recently imposed strict but apparently temporary limits on Twitter reading, attributing a shift to scraping by AI startups looking for data for large language models (LLMs).
