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xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:29 pm
by wjfox
Elon Musk announces new AI start-up
24 minutes ago
Tesla boss Elon Musk has announced the formation of an artificial intelligence startup.
The new company is called xAI, and includes several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.
Mr Musk has previously stated he believes developments in AI should be paused and that the sector needs regulation.
He said the start-up was created to "understand reality".
It is unclear how much funding the entity has, what its specific objectives are or what kind artificial intelligence the company wants to focus on.
The company's website says the goal of xAI is to "understand the true nature of the universe."
The new firm will host a Twitter Spaces chat on Friday, which may reveal further details about its aims.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66183034
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:50 pm
by firestar464
Elon's definition of "understanding the universe:" "trans bad"
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 10:18 pm
by Cyber_Rebel
Elon Musk says Tesla will spend $1 billion to build a ‘Dojo’ A.I. supercomputer—but it wouldn’t be necessary if Nvidia could just supply more chips
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Fortune)
Think chip designer Nvidia’s trillion-dollar-plus valuation is mainly hot air thanks to hype around generative artificial intelligence?
Elon Musk would not agree. The Tesla CEO is willing to invest well over $1 billion to build an A.I. supercomputer he dubbed Dojo just because he can’t get his hands on enough of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s advanced A100 tensor core GPU clusters.
The EV visionary needs them to train both his “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software currently sold for $15,000, as well as his Optimus humanoid robots under development to perform useful everyday tasks.
“Frankly if they could deliver us enough GPUs, we might not need Dojo,” Musk told analysts on Wednesday during Tesla’s Q2 earnings call. “But they can’t, because they have got so many customers.”
In October, Musk said he wasn’t even sure his latest project would prove itself superior to buying Nvidia chips off the shelf—unusual given he typically demands the best from his team. Instead he was full of praise of Huang and thanked the company for prioritize some of its orders.
“We’ll actually take Nvidia hardware as fast as Nvidia will deliver it to us,” he said yesterday.
Tesla has a voracious demand for A.I. chips that seemingly outstrips virtually any commercial competitor. It aims to reach an in-house compute capability of 100 exaFLOPS (an extremely high level of supercomputer performance) by the end of next year, a truly staggering figure that would ensconce it easily among the global top five providers known currently, according to the company.
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Wasn't quite sure whether to post this in the Elon thread or here, but I suppose here is good since it relates to xAI. Can someone more versed in supercomputer architecture please explain how they plan to achieve 100 exaflops in a short time, when as I understand it, the current best is just 1-2? That seems exponential insane even for exponential growth, but I hope they achieve it.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:13 pm
by Cyber_Rebel
Well, we're about to find out what xAI is about soon. Pretty bold claim and would literally have to be multimodal to even be a reasonable contender. Being the "best" means more than simply being a slightly uncensored "truth seeker," it must also translate to actual capability.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 7:15 pm
by firestar464
It might just be an AI for those who want to filter out reality.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:55 am
by spryfusion
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:59 am
by spryfusion
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:20 pm
by firestar464
Certainly something OpenAI could learn from
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:24 pm
by Cyber_Rebel
Grok has real-time access to info via the 𝕏 platform, which is a massive advantage over other models.
Should've known that's what he meant, because of course actual multimodal features or some new breakthrough that would challenge the use cases of GPT-4Vision and now GPT-All Tools just isn't sufficient, no. Twitter twatter access is the big AGI breakthrough which will leave the likes of OpenAI & Anthropic in the dust.
Well, I suppose there must be at least one AI clown company so it might as well be his. Imagine paying almost as much as a GPT-Plus subscription for this.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2023 3:25 pm
by firestar464
imagine thinking twitter is special
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:07 am
by spryfusion
https://x.ai/
Seems to be slightly better than GPT-3.5 based on evals. GPT-4 is still the best LLM as of now.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 5:28 am
by firestar464
How accurate is this? Me thinks trusting Elon not good idea.
Seriously though, in any case they're smart to present it as a little smarter than GPT-3.5 to attract OpenAI's free users
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:13 am
by spryfusion
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:35 am
by wjfox
That's actually quite cool.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:51 pm
by Cyber_Rebel
The branching conversations/response tree is actually a pretty good feature. I'm assuming this is for more context or memory? Kind of like the tree of thought idea implemented within a UI. Saving the conversation seamlessly to continue it also helps in the former case.
Ngl, I wish we had a "fun mode" for GPT-4. It's kind of like Bing's creative mode which makes conversing with it a bit more interesting and insightful. Might've spoken a little bit too soon about Grok, so we'll see where it goes from here.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:42 pm
by firestar464
"you need twatter to have early access"
Me: no
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:41 pm
by Time_Traveller
firestar464 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 6:42 pm
"you need twatter to have early access"
Me: no
Definitely agree there firestar.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:50 pm
by Powers
They won't have my phone number.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:54 pm
by Cyber_Rebel
Oh, I see where the "use cases" will be with Grok.
Still can't justify paying for this through Twitter Twatter, but I hope Elon doesn't chicken out. If successful, perhaps Character.AI or something similar will end up following suit, since it won't be seen as too fringe anymore. Possibly the best outcome of Musk entering AI tbh.
Re: xAI – new AI startup announced by Elon Musk
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:04 am
by Powers
Cyber_Rebel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 10:54 pm
Oh, I see where the "use cases" will be with Grok.
Still can't justify paying for this through Twitter Twatter, but I hope Elon doesn't chicken out. If successful, perhaps Character.AI or something similar will end up following suit, since it won't be seen as too fringe anymore. Possibly the best outcome of Musk entering AI tbh.
LOL