Elon Musk announced his new AI firm, xAI, which aims to "understand the true nature of the universe."

 

Elon Musk announced his new AI firm, xAI, which aims to "understand the true nature of the universe."  The company's website lists 12 employees, including former DeepMind engineer Igor Babuschkin, former Google executives Christian Szegedy and Tony Wu, and former Microsoft executive Greg Yang.  The AI startup is incorporated in Nevada, bearing the X.AI Corp name.  The company's website notes that the new entity is separate from X Corp, the parent company that Twitter merged with earlier this year.  However, the newly formed AI startup will "work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies." xAI is holding a live event on Twitter Spaces on July 14 to reveal more details.  xAI will compete with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, in which Musk was one of the founders.  Musk left OpenAI's board in 2018 and has criticized the creation of its for-profit arm.