Elon Musk gets $6 billion to boost his AI

With this investment, the value that xAI has raised rose to $12 billion and is in line with Musk’s goal of reaching a valuation of $50 billion, double what it was six months ago.

Musk wants to boost his AI efforts

xAI is available through Grok, the generative Artificial Intelligence platform included within the social network to support the company’s developments.

Musk’s AI has also been in the middle of controversy for its lax policies around misinformation content, as well as the ability to produce images of real-life characters.

Even Musk has mocked other platforms such as ChatGPT, which he has accused of being too “politically correct”, while from his perspective Grok’s main objective is the “maximum search for the truth.”

Although Musk requested more than a year ago that AI development be stopped for six months, he subsequently launched his model and like other companies has added functions, such as generating images and processing different types of inputs beyond the text.

It is currently in competition with other companies in the sector, such as OpenAI or Anthropic, to develop autonomous agents, which promises to be the next step in the evolution of large-scale AI.

Likewise, it is in a legal odyssey against OpenAI. Last week he asked the US justice system to prevent OpenAI, creator of ChatGTP, from becoming a for-profit company, as well as to prevent the technology company from prohibiting its investors from financing competing companies.

Musk is one of the people who co-founded and financed OpenAI in 2015, but later withdrew from the project because he believed that the company had a relationship with other large technology companies.

In 2018, Musk proposed taking control of OpenAI, but the offer was not accepted and the also owner of Tesla decided to sever relations with Sam Altman, founder and CEO of the company and OpenAI on February 20 of that year.

Musk resigned from the board of directors under the argument of a conflict of interest, since Tesla was developing its own AI system for the autonomous driving of its vehicles and they could steal talent from each other, something that, in fact, did happen.

Musk, president of Trump’s efficiency commission

Elon Musk has proven to be one of the most influential businessmen in the United States and an example of this in politics was his appointment, together with Vivek Ramaswamy, at the head of the “Government Efficiency” Commission, which will have the objective of reducing regulations. , waste and restructure federal agencies.

“Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, dramatically reduce overregulation, cut wasteful spending, and restructure federal agencies – essential to the Save America movement,” Trump said.

The also owner of Tesla has admitted that his plan involves massive layoffs of federal agents. “This will shake the system and all those involved in government waste, and there are many,” Musk declared after Trump’s announcement.