Musk reveals xAI details: AGI will be achieved in 6 years, and Tesla’s Twitter resources can be used! 20,000 N-cards are revealed to be in place

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As expected of Musk.

After igniting the outside world's curiosity about xAI, he immediately led his team in a public live broadcast to respond, revealing more details himself:

• Achieve comprehensive AGI in 2029

• There will be software and hardware cooperation with Tesla

• Will use Twitter data for training
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It also explained why xAI wants to study the nature of the universe, because Musk believes that if you want to realize AGI, you must start by understanding the universe.

And at this time, he did not forget to backstab his rivals Google and OpenAI. He said that relatively speaking, xAI is more trustworthy and can build a more secure AI system.

Moreover, xAI is not a listed company and will not be subject to many market constraints.

This intense public talk lasted 90 minutes and attracted more than 30,000 viewers on Twitter.

Even Greg Brockman, co-founder and chairman of OpenAI, joined in on the fun.

So what did Lao Ma talk about in this speech?

xAI will make full use of the “Musk Ecosystem”

Some netizens used Claude to summarize the key points of the entire talk, which can be divided into 5 aspects :

1. The mission of xAI is to build an AI with extreme curiosity and truth-seeking, which will understand the nature of the universe. Musk believes this is the way to build the safest AI.

2. xAI has an elite R&D team, and everyone can allocate a large amount of computing resources - this operating model has been successfully verified by SpaceX and Tesla.

3. xAI plans to have hardware cooperation with Tesla and utilize Tesla’s accumulation in efficient training and reasoning. This will allow xAI to focus more on the software side, that is, model development.

4. xAI plans to release the product as soon as possible and get feedback from the public. Musk hopes this AI will be useful to people.

5. xAI will remain open and transparent to any government and oppose any behavior that violates the public interest. Musk does not want xAI to pose a threat or disadvantage to humans.

Throughout the speech, members of Musk's xAI team also took turns to speak, introducing their more detailed situations and opinions.

Musk is basically responsible for rambling on and revealing some important information.

He made it clear that xAI will cooperate with Tesla and Twitter , including resources, technology, data, etc.

For example, in terms of chips that are of most concern, we will cooperate with Tesla. Tesla has previously developed its own Dojo D1 chip and Dojo supercomputer, which can be used to handle large-scale training and inference. But he does not rule out the possibility of software cooperation. Musk said Tesla’s AI team is very powerful.

In addition, in terms of data, Twitter is obviously a rich and high-quality database, otherwise it would not have been "closed" some time ago.

Well, the good news will not go to outsiders. Lao Ma said that they will use public data on Twitter for training (text, images, videos, etc.) and will not access private data.

At the same time, he also said that he hopes xAI can have decision-making algorithms like Alpha Zero like Google.

As for the talent team, xAI’s model will be consistent with SpaceX and Tesla. It will still be a small team with all elites .

In addition to these key points, Musk also rambled on about some personal opinions on a daily basis.

For example, Musk believes that it is more interesting for super AI to coexist with humans than to destroy them.

You see there are so many stars in the solar system, but none of them combined are interesting to anyone .

Previously disclosed information stated that xAI’s large model will be approached from a mathematical perspective. Musk also further explained why this was done in this talk:

Mathematics can open up new ways of thinking about basic physics or other problems. When we try to understand neural networks from a mathematical perspective, a series of interesting theories, questions, and perspectives often arise.

In fact, among the main creative team of xAI, more than one person has focused on researching problems in the field of AI mathematics. For example, Greg Yang is a mathematician himself.

However, Musk did not say more about more details.

For example, how does xAI surpass Google and OpenAI...

But it is still an old habit. Musk has set a clear time point for his large AI model company: to achieve AGI before 2029 .

It was revealed that people are rushing to buy N cards

In addition to the self-exposure of the main creative team, more news about xAI has also spread like wildfire.

According to semafor, Musk pays the top researchers on his team as much as nine figures .

If calculated based on a valuation of 20 billion, then 1% stock options at the start-up stage are equivalent to US$200 million.

In addition, Musk’s establishment of an AI start-up company cannot escape the anxiety of computing power.

It is reported that Musk is trying to purchase 40,000 GPUs from Lao Huang for training AI. But in the end, Nvidia seemed to only promise to provide 20,000 copies within one year.

Musk also bluntly stated in public speeches that Tesla Dojo is not a GPU, although people generally regard it as the same as a GPU.

With the official announcement of xAI, I believe there will be more news in the future.

Let us wait and see~

Reference links:
[1] https://www.assemblyai.com/playground/transcript/602n8j5nbc-690c-43b1-aed1-52026d683446
[2] https://www.semafor.com/article/07/14/2023/ elon-musk-threw-nine-figure-promises-at-top-ai-researchers
[3] https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1679982936123412480?s=20
[4] https://www.cnbc. com/2023/07/14/elon-musk-plans-tesla-twitter-collaborations-with-xai.html

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