Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will be integrated into his social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app, he said in a post on Sunday.
The billionaire also said that xAI has released its first AI model, a bot called Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers on Friday.
The startup aims to create AI tools that “help humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge” and that Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of humor.
Musk, who has criticized Big Tech’s AI efforts as fraught with censorship, launched xAI in July, calling it a “maximum truth-seeking AI” that seeks to understand the nature of the universe and rivals Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing AI.
“Grok has real-time access to information through the X platform, which is a huge advantage over other models,” Musk added.
X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter that Musk owns, is separate from xAI, but the companies work closely together. xAI also works with its electric car manufacturer Tesla and other companies.
Last week, Musk told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that he thought AI was “the most disruptive force in history.” The technology will be able to “do it all” and make employment as we know it a thing of the past, Musk speculated at the first global AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, England.
In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which created a frenzy for generative AI technology around the world but stepped down from the board in 2018.
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