Elon Musk’s AI startup seeks to raise $1bn in equity
Wed 6 Dec 2023 07.58 GMT
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is seeking to raise $1bn (£0.8bn) as the world’s richest man tries to keep pace with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Google in the race to dominate the field.
The company has already raised $135m (£107m) from investors and is seeking a total of $1bn in equity financing, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The race to develop generative AI – products that generate convincing text, image and audio from simple prompts – has intensified as Silicon Valley’s biggest companies battle for supremacy after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November last year.
After the sensational impact of that chatbot, Microsoft announced a deepening of its partnership with OpenAI in January backed by a $10bn investment.
Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of the X platform formerly known as Twitter, was one of OpenAI’s co-founders in 2015 but left three years later. In July, Musk launched xAI and last month the company released its first AI model, a chatbot with a “rebellious streak” called Grok.
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A vote for Trump, a third party candidate, or no vote at all, is a vote for a dystopian future.
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only useful for twatter users ig
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I feel like he has put OpenAI on the spot there.
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XAI and X Will Release Grok 2 Next Week and It is Claimed to Surpass GPT4 and Claude 3
March 29, 2024 by Brian Wang
Elon says Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. Grok 2 is in training now
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/x ... ude-3.html
March 29, 2024 by Brian Wang
Elon says Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. Grok 2 is in training now
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/03/x ... ude-3.html
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Elon is trying to get the last laugh.
Well I'm not sure the public will let him have it if it's not safety-aligned.
Well I'm not sure the public will let him have it if it's not safety-aligned.
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