According to the Financial Times, Elon Musk is looking to launch an artificial intelligence company to rival OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
Musk is only the latest in Silicon Valley to throw his hat in the artificial intelligence ring. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and many others are scrambling to create AI technology that can rival ChatGPT right now.
According to the Financial Times, Elon Musk is currently putting a team together of AI researchers and engineers and is talking to several investors about the project. A source for the Financial Times told the publication that “a bunch of people are investing in it”.
The Guardian said: “The move … appears to signal a rapid change of direction. Only a few weeks ago Musk co-signed a letter in which he and more than 1,800 others demanded a six-month pause in AI research. It later emerged that some of the signatories were fake.”
The irony is that his new startup could see Musk competing with OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015. After three years he left due to clashes with the board, tweeting in 2019: “Tesla was competing for some of the same people as OpenAI & I didn’t agree with some of what OpenAI team wanted to do.”
