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www.dw.com
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Lexicon X DW 05/17/2024

x.AI company focuses on building AI to accelerate scientific discovery, led by Elon Musk with a technical team having experienced members from reputable organizations. [ more ]
Yahoo Finance
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's friends are reportedly looking to help raise $3 billion for his AI startup as it plays catch-up with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic

Elon Musk's xAI is seeking a $3 billion funding round to compete with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Investors close to Musk, including Steve Jurvetson and Gigafund, are in talks to support xAI. [ more ]
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TechCrunch
3 weeks ago
Tech industry

xAI, Elon Musk's OpenAI rival, is closing on $6B in funding and X, his social network, is already one of its shareholders | TechCrunch

Elon Musk's competitor xAI is raising $6 billion with changing deal terms and high investor demand. [ more ]
The Verge
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

What's the point of Elon Musk's AI company?

xAI, Elon Musk's AI company lacks differentiation and clear purpose beyond Musk's involvement.
xAI seeking significant funding despite Musk's denial of raising capital. [ more ]
The Times of India
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's xAI may look for $6 billion to take on ChatGPT, Google Bard - Times of India

Musk's venture xAI is seeking $6 billion in funding to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
If successful, this funding round would give xAI a $20 billion valuation, making it a major player in the AI market. [ more ]
Futurism
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk Looking for $6 Billion to Develop AI Outside Tesla

Elon Musk's new AI venture xAI is looking to raise $6 million in funding at a $20 billion valuation.
xAI's value would be below OpenAI's estimated $100 billion but on par with Anthropic.
xAI is seeking funding from wealth fund managers in the Middle East and offices in Hong Kong. [ more ]
The Economic Times
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Musk denies report his AI company secures $500 million toward $1 billion funding goal

Elon Musk denies reports of xAI securing $500 million in funding.
xAI discussing a valuation of $15 billion to $20 billion. [ more ]
Theregister
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's xAI looking for $1B from new investors

Elon Musk's xAI is seeking $1 billion in funding for its AI venture.
xAI has already received $135 million from investors.
The SEC does not attest to the accuracy of the information in the filing. [ more ]
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New York Post
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk boosts pay of AI engineers to prevent poaching from OpenAI: 'Craziest talent war I've ever seen'

Tesla is raising compensation for its AI engineering team to combat poaching efforts by OpenAI.
The competition for AI talent is intense, with OpenAI leading in generative AI. [ more ]
Ars Technica
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

xAI's Grok-1 model is a 314-billion-parameter AI assistant similar to ChatGPT, released in base form for public access.
The base model released by xAI is not fine-tuned for a specific task like dialogue, requiring additional work for conversational use outside xAI. [ more ]
TimesNow
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's xAI Makes Grok Open-Source Amid Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Elon Musk announced open-sourcing xAI's ChatGPT challenger 'Grok'.
Debate on open-source AI includes concerns about misuse and support for innovation. [ more ]
MobileAppAaily
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Grok AI Will Become Open-Source This Week, Says Elon Musk.

Elon Musk's xAI released Grok chatbot as a competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT, now open-sourced.
Elon Musk sued OpenAI co-founder and expressed interest in renaming OpenAI to ClosedAI. [ more ]
ReadWrite
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok amid OpenAI dispute

Elon Musk's xAI open-sourcing Grok to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
OpenAI's rebuttal to Musk's claims of reneging on original AI purpose. [ more ]
Ars Technica
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's new AI bot, Grok, causes stir by citing OpenAI usage policy

Grok, the AI language model created by xAI, has shown glitches in its response
xAI representatives confirm the issue and attribute it to training on web data
Experts question the explanation and suspect fine-tuning on output data from OpenAI language models [ more ]
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The Verge
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Why is Elon Musk's Grok chatbot so unfunny?

xAI, funded with $1 billion, is seen as Elon Musk's attempt to save Twitter.
Grok, xAI's answer bot, is marketed as humorous but has received criticism for being unfunny. [ more ]
Mashable India
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's Grok AI Chatbot Arrives For X Premium+ Subscribers; Here's How To Use

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has launched its own AI chatbot named Grok.
Grok is now available for public use in the United States, initially for select premium subscribers of X. [ more ]
The Times of India
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's $1 billion push to compete against ChatGPT - Times of India

Elon Musk's company xAI is looking to raise $1 billion in equity funding for its artificial intelligence ventures.
xAI's chatbot, Grok, stands out for its unique personality and ability to engage in playful banter and tackle spicy topics. [ more ]
Coindesk
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI Tokens Jump on Irrational Euphoria as Musk's X Corp Reveals xAI Shareholding

AI-focused tokens rose over the weekend as developments in key AI companies sparked euphoria around the long-term growth of the emerging technology sector.
Reports of Sam Altman possibly returning to the board of OpenAI bolstered bullish sentiment for the AI token sector. [ more ]
InfoQ
6 months ago
Artificial intelligence

xAI Introduces Large Language Model Grok

xAI has announced a large language model called Grok, which outperforms other models of similar size on various benchmarks.
Grok is designed to be a powerful research assistant, helping users access information, process data, and come up with new ideas.
The xAI team aims to build AI tools that benefit all of humanity and empower users, while adhering to the law. [ more ]
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www.cnbc.com
5 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's AI startup X.AI files to raise $1 billion in fresh capital

X.AI, an AI startup founded by Elon Musk, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering.
The company has already raised $135 million from four investors and has a binding agreement to purchase the remaining shares. [ more ]
ReadWrite
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's xAI closes in on $6 billion as AI race heats up

Elon Musk's xAI secures significant venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital, highlighting its potential value and competition in the AI industry. [ more ]
Fortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk wants to make Grok AI an option for X premium users to compose tweets

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is integrated into X for AI-powered features, replacing human curation teams but facing challenges in content accuracy. [ more ]
Fortune
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk's friends to help raise $3 billion for xAI

Elon Musk's xAI startup is seeking a $3 billion funding round valuing it at $18 billion.
xAI competes with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic for capital and AI talent. [ more ]
Entrepreneur
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk, xAI Open-Source Grok AI Model, How to Find It | Entrepreneur

xAI open-sourced the AI model Grok-1 trained from scratch on a large amount of text data.
Grok-1 gained popularity compared to other open-source AI models. [ more ]
Hindustan Times
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk says his AI startup xAI will open-source Grok chatbot, ChatGPT's rival

XAI to open-source Grok chatbot
Musk supports open-source AI [ more ]
Engadget
1 month ago
Data science

The latest version of xAI's Grok can process images

xAI introduces Grok-1.5V, a multimodal AI model for processing visual information. [ more ]
TechCrunch
1 month ago
Data science

X makes Grok chatbot available to premium subscribers | TechCrunch

Social network X is rolling out access to xAI's Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers.
Grok chatbot offers users the option to interact in Regular mode or Fun mode and is part of a larger strategy by xAI to compete with other AI products. [ more ]
TechCrunch
1 month ago
Data science

X's Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5 | TechCrunch

Grok-1.5 offers improved reasoning in coding and math tasks over Grok-1
Grok-1.5 has a significantly larger context window for better understanding and generating text [ more ]
Exchangewire
2 months ago
Marketing tech

Nvidia Sued Over Use of Copyrighted Material; Elon Musk's xAI to Open-Source Grok; X Launches Long-Form Articles - ExchangeWire.com

Nvidia sued for using copyrighted material in AI training
Elon Musk's xAI to open-source Grok and introduce long-form articles on X platform [ more ]
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