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The
startup aims to create AI tools that 'assist humanity in its
quest for understanding and knowledge' and that Grok has been
designed to answer questions with a bit of wit.
Musk who has criticized Big Tech's AI efforts as ridden with
censorship, in July launched xAI, calling it a "maximum
truth-seeking AI" that tries to understand the nature of the
universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI.
"Grok has real-time access to info via the X platform, which is
a massive advantage over other models," Musk added.
X, the social media firm formerly known as Twitter which Musk
owns, is separate from xAI, but the companies work closely
together. xAI also works with his electric car maker Tesla and
other companies.
Last week Musk told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak he
thought AI was "the most disruptive force in history." The
technology will be able to "do everything" and make employment
as we know it today a thing of the past, Musk speculated at the
first global AI Safety Summit, in Bletchley Park, England.
In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,
which has created a frenzy for generative AI technology around
the world, but stepped down from the board in 2018.
(Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing by Richard Chang)
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