After raising $6.6 billion in the latest funding round, OpenAI has asked its investors not to invest in competing startups such as Ilya Sutskever's SSI, Elon Musk's xAI, and Anthropic.
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Elon Musk's xAI has released betas of Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, both are now available for Premium and Premium+ users on X. They are about as powerful as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Elon Musk has confirmed on X that xAI's next large language models, Grok 2 and Grok 3, will arrive in August and by the year's end, respectively. He said Grok 3 will be "really something special."
xAI, the generative AI company founded by Elon Musk, just announced it had raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round to help boost the development of its Grok AI model, among other projects.
Elon Musk has told xAI investors that the company is planning to build a compute gigafactory powered by a very powerful cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs. It will be able to train new Grok iterations.
xAI launched Grok-1.5V, a new multimodal AI that can understand text, images, diagrams, and more. xAI claims Grok-1.5V outperforms competitors on key benchmarks such as RealWorldQA.
Elon Musk has shown off screenshots of xAI's Grok AI chatbot. It has the unique ability to grab the latest information from Twitter, something other bots don't do. It is also more humorous.
Elon Musk has said that xAI will be launching its chatbot to a limited number of users on Saturday. Musk didn't give details but claimed the chatbot excels in some areas compared to the competition.
AI.com changed ownership from OpenAI to Elon Musk's X.ai. Its value was estimated at $3 million. The saga surrounding the domain spans more than 20 years, with the first owner allegedly being Google.
Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI, aims to develop transparent and accountable AI that understands the universe. The website says it collaborates with X Corp, Tesla, and other X Corp. companies.
