10 power players from Elon Musk's xAI who are giving OpenAI a run for its money with Grok chatbot
xAI has rapidly gained a huge traction in the artificial intelligence sector since its launch in the month of July of the year 2023 while achieving a valuation of $50 billion and raising over $12 billion in funding, reported Business Insider.
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According to Business Insider, the company eventually aims to ‘understand the universe’ and has thus introduced a chatbot named Grok, which features numerous capabilities such as web search results, PDF uploads and image understanding. Grok has been also trained on user data from X (formerly known as Twitter) while providing xAI with a competitive edge but also attracting scrutiny from numerous privacy regulators.
The founding team actually comprises eminent, world famous and selective experts from various prestigious organizations like Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Tesla. Business Insider asserted that the key figures include Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai, who are the individuals bringing extensive experience in machine learning and AI research.
During recent times, xAI actually plans to enhance its supercomputer named Colossus to eventually support its AI models and compete with the established players like OpenAI and
