Elon Musk OpenAI drama
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI releses Grok-3
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati launches AI Lab
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Elon Musk OpenAI drama
It all started, according to the 2024 suit, in 2012 when Musk was giving Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, an AI research lab, a tour of SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California, facility. They discussed the greatest threats facing society. Hassabis told Musk that AI advancements are one such major threat. Computing circles have long theorized about an event called the “singularity,” where technology substantially exceeds human intelligence, with uncertain outcomes for humanity.
“Following this conversation with Mr. Hassabis, Mr. Musk became increasingly concerned about the potential of AI to become super-intelligent, surpass human intelligence, and threaten humanity,” according to the complaint. Musk began talking about AI’s existential threat with his friends and colleagues, including Google co-founder Larry Page. But Musk was “shocked” that Page did not share his concerns, and allegedly said that AI systems replacing humans would merely be the “next stage of evolution.”
Musk discovered that Google was planning to acquire DeepMind, which was one of the most advanced AI companies in the industry. He became “deeply concerned that DeepMind’s AI technology would be in the hands of someone who viewed it and its power so cavalierly.” Musk and Luke Nosek, PayPal co-founder, tried to buy DeepMind, believing that “the future of AI should not be controlled by Larry (Page).” They failed and Google acquired DeepMind in 2014.
The following year, Musk met Sam Altman, then president of startup incubator Y Combinator and a tech investor. Musk said he believed at the time that he found someone who shared his concerns. Altman would pitch the creation of a nonprofit AI lab filled with top researchers, one that would share its research with the world for free. It was meant to be a counterweight to Google. The thinking was that giving the public access to state-of-the-art AI models would compete with — and defuse — Google’s attempts to develop superintelligence. Altman drafted a proposal for this nonprofit, which would own the technology and use it for the “good of the world,” according to the complaint.
Musk later came up with the name OpenAI, to reflect the lab’s open-source mission. It was 2015. Musk, who pumped about $50 million in OpenAI to get it started, said he used his stature and wealth to poach respected research scientist Ilya Sutskever from Google. Musk and Hassabis were in a bidding war for him; but Sutskever would join OpenAI as chief scientist and co-founder. Musk instructed Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to “get the best people in the world” and offered essentially a blank check: “Whatever it takes.” Musk added that DeepMind was “causing me extreme mental stress. If they win, it will be really bad news with their ‘one mind to rule the world’ philosophy.”....
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Elon Musk's AI startup xAI releses Grok-3
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has introduced Grok-3, the latest iteration of its chatbot. The chatbot is being rolled out immediately to Premium+ subscribers on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. xAI is also launching a new subscription tier, SuperGrok, for users accessing the chatbot via its mobile app and Grok.com website. "Grok-3 across the board is in a league of its own," Musk said during a livestream alongside three xAI engineers late on Monday, adding that the model significantly outperforms its predecessor, Grok-2.
Last week, a consortium of investors led by Musk offered $97.4 billion to acquire OpenAI's nonprofit assets, an offer the ChatGPT-maker rejected. Musk on Monday reiterated xAI's commitment to open-source AI, saying earlier versions of Grok will be made publicly available once the latest model reaches full maturity. He expects Grok-3 to meet that benchmark in a few months.
The latest release introduces a smart search engine, called DeepSearch, which xAI describes as a reasoning-based chatbot capable of articulating its thought process when responding to user queries. The tool, demonstrated during the livestream, offers functions for research, brainstorming, and data analysis. As competition in AI intensifies, xAI is ramping up its data center capacity to train more advanced models. Bloomberg News reported last week the startup is in discussions to raise up to $10 billion in funding
Experts have been given access to Grok 3 in advance and were able to test the claims. For example, former Tesla Director of AI and OpenAI founder Andrej Karpathy shared his test results on X, saying that Grok 3 + Thinking feels similar to OpenAI’s o1-pro model while being a bit better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. This is actually quite a feat, especially since OpenAI and Google have had a massive head start over xAI.….
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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines AI Lab
Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of OpenAI, has launched Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI research and product company aimed at making artificial intelligence more accessible, customizable, and collaborative. “Despite their potential, these systems remain difficult for people to customize to their specific needs and values,” the company added. “To bridge the gaps, we’re building Thinking Machines Lab to make AI systems more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable.” “While current systems excel at programming and mathematics, we’re building AI that can adapt to the full spectrum of human expertise and enable a broader spectrum of applications,”
Murati has been working to create an AI dream team for this new startup. She recently recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman as head of research. Barrett Zoph, another former OpenAI leader, is her startup’s CTO. Sources tell Reuters that Schulman has been actively helping build the team by taking meetings with researchers mere blocks from OpenAI’s headquarters. Jonathan Lachman, who led OpenAI’s special projects division, has also jumped ship to join Murati’s venture. In total, she has poached about 10 top researchers and engineers from elite AI labs, including OpenAI, Character.AI, and Google DeepMind….
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