Does Elon Musk’s xAI have a competitive advantage over OpenAI?
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Does Elon Musk’s xAI have a competitive advantage over OpenAI?

The Hindu  

The last time Elon Musk took AI safety seriously was in 2015 when he co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman. Now, the head of Tesla has founded another AI startup that aims to loosen OpenAI’s grip over AI, and the multi-billionaire wants the AI firm, xAI, to do nothing less than “understanding the nature of the universe.” When asked what that exactly meant, his response was all-encompassing - he wanted to understand and help others understand questions that were still unanswered about the nature of gravity, dark matter and how old the universe actually is. Musk’s madcap reputation might make it easier for people to ignore that xAI is well-positioned to be serious competitor to Google AI and OpenAI. Other names include Manuel Kroiss, who is also former DeepMind and Google AI, and Yuhai Wu, who has worked at OpenAI, DeepMind and Google in the past.. That Musk is single-minded about xAI is clear from the people he handpicked: prolific scientists who had worked on seminal projects for their companies. Senior AI scientist at NVIDIA, Linxi Fan posted on LinkedIn about the founding members on Musk’s team saying, “I’m really impressed by the talent density - read too many papers from them to count.” Another scientist and physicist, Bojan Tunguz shared a similar sentiment saying, “Despite the fairly lofty and general aim, it is clear from the list of founding members that this is a very hard-core AI-focused endeavor.” Musk also has Dan Hendrycks from the Center for AI Safety on the advisory for xAI.

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