xAI: ChatGPT rival by Elon Musk will get a test version soon

A. xAIAn artificial intelligence company led by Elon Musk will launch this Saturday (4) first test version of your language model. The confirmation came from the billionaire himself, who posted the warning on his profile on social network X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Tomorrow, xAI will offer its first artificial intelligence to a select group of people. In some important ways it is the best there is right now,” says the CEO.

Tomorrow, @xAI will release its first artificial intelligence to a select group.

In some important respects it is the best currently available.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 3 November 2023

For now, there are no details on how Musk’s AI will work and whether it will be a browser-run chatbot like ChatGPT or will be incorporated into some kind of existing service.

There is also no information about the composition of this selected group that will test the platform.

Musk’s mysterious artificial intelligence

In previous statements, the businessman suggested that the platform’s ultimate goal is to “solve the mysteries of the universe” and that it will use data from social network X as part of the information that will feed artificial intelligence.

xAI was founded by Musk in July 2023 in response to the growth of the industry and the launch of chatbots taking over the market. The billionaire hired engineers working at other companies in the industry, including his former employees. ContemplationIt is a subsidiary of Google.

Despite the similar name, it operates independently of X/Twitter and only “works closely” with the billionaire’s other companies, including Tesla and SpaceX.

The businessman himself is already interested in the issue: for three years, He was one of the presidents of OpenAIHe owns ChatGPT, but left the company in 2018 to devote himself to his other ventures.

Currently, Elon Musk is one of the biggest critics of this chatbot. He was one of the members of the group that called for a “pause” in research into generative AI chatbots in early 2023 with an open letter and even cut off access to the then-Twitter API for ChatGPT bots.

However, Musk later announced that he would enter the industry on his own initiative to “save humanity.”