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On a warm night in San Francisco earlier this week, Elon Musk stood on top of a small round coffee table, bathed in purple light. Flocks of AI engineers and researchers gathered around him, some sitting on a nearby stairwell, as the billionaire pitched them on joining his fledgling AI company, xAI.
The location was apt: The Pioneer Building in the city’s Mission district, a 122-year-old former truck factory, and most recently, headquarters of OpenAI, the juggernaut maker of ChatGPT led by cofounder Sam Altman. xAI had just moved into the building, Musk said, attendees toldMusk has not been shy about his beef with OpenAI. He cofounded the company with Altman and others in 2015, before leaving three years later after an alleged internal power struggle.
“He really wants to be the antithesis to OpenAI. They really want to go on and say, ‘Okay, we are the good guys now.’” During the wide-ranging Q&A, Musk touched on several topics. He said xAI would open source their models about nine months after release. Asked what he recommends for young people in AI, he went into pitch mode and said they should work at xAI, just like Musk’s 18-year-old son, who just started at the company. On getting to Mars with his other company SpaceX, he reiterated the timeline would be “best case 2028, realistic case, 2030,” one attendee recalled.
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