Elon Musk, the visionary entrepreneur at the head of Tesla and SpaceX, founded a new company called X.AI (but he didn't say that artificial intelligence was it stopped for 6 months?). Its ambitious stated goal is to understand the true nature of the universe thanks to artificial intelligence. Boom. Oh well, it's Elon Musk, he likes to make an impression.
Fuga di cervelli
The X.AI team brings together some of the brightest minds in the field of artificial intelligence, coming from the most advanced research laboratories in the world: DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto.
Among the members, second IT point, names of the caliber of stand out Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, Samy Bengio, lead scientist at Apple, e Geoffrey Hinton, “father of deep learning”. These are only the best known ones, in reality the list is long.
The “primordial broth” of X.AI
To give you an even clearer idea of how high the project set up by Musk is aiming, look at where the tycoon made his "purchase campaign". The researchers involved in X. AI today have developed some of the most revolutionary artificial intelligence techniques in recent years.
Ilya Sutskever, for example, created Adam, one of the most widely used neural network optimizers in the world. And led the development of GPT-3.5 e GPT-4 for OpenAI. Sergey Ioffe, however, introduced crucial techniques such as the batch normalization e layer.
Geoffrey Hinton was instrumental in the creation of AlphaGo by DeepMind, the first program to beat a human champion at Go. Samy Bengio He has helped GPT-3 and computer vision applications.
Other X.AI members such as Ian Goodfellow have discovered the phenomenon of adversarial examples; anthropic, an AI startup founded by Dario Amodei, has developed models such as Claudia 2, in my opinion the model that at the moment can really undermine ChatGPT.
Is the weight of the operation clearer now?
From academic research to concrete applications
Created the super team in X.AI, it's already time to get into action. These scientists will be able to collaborate to translate their research into concrete applications, with superior investment and resources.
The target? I told you: unlock the secrets of the universe. Boom (nothing, the explosion comes by itself). Obviously it is a phrase that means everything and nothing, with a clear motivational matrix as the "owner" likes, but with the talent of its members and the resources of companies like SpaceX, X.AI can really realize (also) new scientific discoveries.
One thing is certain: after trying to slow down the wave, Musk decided to ride it in his own way. And this time too the impression is that we won't be bored.
