Elon Musk wants to join the AI chatbot race -in which they already participate among others Googlewith Bardand OpenIA and Microsoftwith the latest version of ChatGPTGPT-4- and launch his own company, according to the Financial Times (FT).
This information has leaked to the press just weeks after the billionaire participated in an apocalyptic letter calling for AI systems “more powerful than GPT-4” to be suspended for six months.
According to anonymous sources cited by the FT, the chief executive of Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla He has had discussions with several investors from the last two companies to participate in this new venture.
For the new project, Musk reportedly secured thousands of high-powered GPU processors from manufacturer Nvidia.
GPU chips are needed to build a large language model (“Large Language Model”, abbreviated LLM): artificial intelligence systems capable of ingesting huge amounts of content and producing human-like writing or realistic images, similar to the technology that drives ChatGPT.
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Musk, who is also at the head of Neuralinka neurotechnology researcher, and The Boring Companya start-up tunneling company, has already started hiring engineers to work on this project, according to the specialized press.
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So far, Musk has hired Igor Babuschkina former DeepMind employee, and about half a dozen other engineers.
The AI startup is separate from its other companies, although it could use the content of Twitter as data to train its language model and take advantage of Tesla’s computing resources.
The new company would allow Musk to go head-to-head with OpenAI, a specialist AI company of which he was a part in the past.
Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI, was one of its early investors and rose to serve as co-chairman. However, in 2018 it became a limited partnership (LP) and Musk left his board of directors.
Following the popularity of the ChatGPT launched by OpenAI last year, Microsoft announced a “billion-dollar” investment in the company in January, and now the giant uses its technology.
In a preview of an interview with Fox that will air next week, Musk once again expresses his concern about the future of AI.
AI is more dangerous than poorly designed aircraft production or poorly produced automobiles,” Musk said in the excerpt released Friday. “In the sense that it has the potential, however small, to destroy civilization,” he added.
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