As we know, Elon Musk was co-founder of OpenAI in 2015 but left the Board in 2018 amid clashes with its management. Of late, he raised an alarm by signing a petition along with others about the safety of generative AI, especially GPT4, the latest release of OpenAI. According to him , it has the potential to spew falsehood and exhibit political bias.

Since then, Musk has decided, it seems, to set up an AI company that can rival Open AI. He has started, it is reported, to assemble a team of AI researchers and engineers. He is said to have roped in Igor Babuschin, a former DeepMind employee. In the team, there are half a dozen other engineers.

He has incorporated a company called X.AI on March 9, 2023. He is the only director and ex-Morgan Stanley banker is the secretary.

To build up the hardware-software for AI, Musk has acquired thousands of high-powered GPU processors from Nvidia. These processors or chips are necessary to build a large language model (LLM). LLM is an AI system that can ingest enormous amount of content and then produce human-like writing and realistic images. The equipment matches that used by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Elon Musk would like to create TruthGPT to counter ChatGPT bias. He is worried that ChatGPT is being trained to be politically correct.

Elon is now in diverse fields — electric cars (Tesla), microblogging (Twitter), space (Space X) neuro technology (Neuralink), tunneling (The Boring Company). He has merged Twitter into X Corp as a part of his plans to create an everything app under the brand X.