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Twitter-owner Musk is assembling a team of AI researchers and
engineers, according to the FT report, and is also in
discussions with some investors in SpaceX and Tesla Inc about
putting money into his new venture.
Musk's plan for the firm comes weeks after a group of AI
researchers and executives, including himself, called for a
six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than
OpenAI's GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.
Companies from Microsoft Corp to Alphabet Inc are pushing to
incorporate Generative AI, the technology behind chatbot
sensation ChatGPT, into their offerings.
However, ChatGPT is facing pushback as regulators call for
well-defined rules ahead of its mass adoption. Italy has banned
ChatGPT over privacy issues, while a European privacy watchdog
created a task force in a first step towards a common policy for
AI.
Musk has secured thousands of graphics processing units, systems
that power the computing required for intensive tasks such as AI
and high-end graphics, from Nvidia Corp, according to FT. Shares
of the chip company, which declined to comment on the matter,
gained on the news on Friday.
Musk last month registered a firm named X.AI Corp, incorporated
in Nevada, according to a state filing. The firm lists Musk as
the sole director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of
Musk's family office, as a secretary.
It was not clear if the firm was related to Musk's reported AI
start-up efforts. Musk did not respond to a Reuters request for
comment.
Musk is one of the co-founders of OpenAI, which was started as a
non-profit in 2015. He stepped down from the company's board in
2018.
(Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna
Chandra Eluri)
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