The goal of xAI is to connect the digital and physical worlds by using training data from Musk's other companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, and Neuralink. Musk's social media platform, X, has already incorporated xAI's chatbot, Grok, as a paid add-on. Musk plans to feed Grok with data from his other companies, starting with self-driving cars and potentially extending to Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus. The success of xAI could pose a challenge to OpenAI, a company Musk co-founded and later left due to disagreements over its direction.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is raising $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion, with investors including Sequoia Capital and Future Ventures.
- The company's ambition is to connect the digital and physical worlds by pulling in training data from each of Musk's companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, and Neuralink.
- xAI's chatbot, Grok, has been incorporated into Musk's social media platform, X, as a paid add-on and is expected to be fed data from Musk's other companies to help it master the physical world.
- Musk has been targeting OpenAI, a company he co-founded and left in 2018, and is now suing. He recently open sourced the architecture of xAI's earliest chatbot “Grok-1” as part of his ongoing campaign to distinguish his efforts from OpenAI.