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xAI (company)

This article is about a US company. For other uses, seeXai.

X.AI Corp.,[4][5]doing business asxAI,is an Americanstartup companyworking in the area ofartificial intelligence(AI). Founded byElon Muskin March 2023, its stated goal is "to understand the true nature of the universe".[6]

X.AI Corp.
xAI
Company typePrivate
IndustryArtificial intelligence
FoundedMarch 9, 2023;21 months ago(2023-03-09)[a]
FounderElon Musk
Headquarters
San Francisco Bay Area,California, U.S.
Key people
Products
Number of employees
c. 100(2024)[3]
Websitex.ai

History

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xAI was founded by Musk[7][8][9]inNevada[4]on March 9, 2023, and has since been headquartered in theSan Francisco Bay Areain California.[10] Igor Babuschkin, formerly associated with Google'sDeepMindunit, was recruited by Musk to be Chief Engineer.[11]

Musk officially announced the formation of xAI on July 12, 2023.[12][13]He linked the date (7 + 12 + 23 =42) to the bookThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxybyDouglas Adams,[14]in which a supercomputer calculates that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42; and to the company's mission "to understand the universe".[15][6]

In December 2023, in aU.S. Securities Exchange Commission(SEC) filing, xAI revealed that it had raised US$134.7 million in outside funding out of a total of up to $1 billion.[16][17]Despite the filing, Musk later claimed viaXthat xAI was not seeking any funding.[18]

In May 2024, xAI was reported to be looking for $6 billion of funding.[19]Later that same month, the company secured the support of variousventure capitalfirms, includingAndreessen Horowitz,Lightspeed Venture Partners,Sequoia CapitalandTribe Capital.[20][21]

In May 2024, Musk predicted that AI will make most jobs obsolete, requiring a highuniversal income.[22]

In June 2024, theGreater Memphis Chamberannounced xAI is planning on building the world's largest supercomputer inMemphis, TN.[23]The supercomputer is planned to be the most advanced AI model when it becomes fully operational in December 2024. Local government in Memphis has voiced concerns regarding the increased usage of electricity, 150megawattsof power at peak, and while the agreement with the city is being worked out, the company has deployed 14 VoltaGrid gas generators to temporarily enhance the power supply.[24]Environmental advocates claim that the gas-burning turbines emit large quantities of gases causing air pollution, and that xAI has been operating the turbines illegally without the necessary permits.[25][26]

As of August 2024,Musk diverted a large number ofNvidiachips which had been ordered byTesla, Inc.to X and xAI.[27]

Products

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While xAI's stated goal is "to understand the true nature of the universe", one of its immediate objectives is to create an AI that is capable of advanced mathematical reasoning, something not found in current models.[28]

On November 4, 2023, xAI unveiledGrok,an AIchatbotthat is integrated withX.xAI stated that when the bot is out ofbeta,it will only be available to X's Premium+ subscribers.[29][30]

On November 6, 2023, xAI released PromptIDE, an integrated development environment designed for prompt engineering and interpretability research, offering tools like a Python code editor and rich analytics to empower users in exploring and refining prompts for large language models like Grok-1.[31][32][33]

On March 2024, Grok was made available to all X Premium subscribers; it was previously available only to Premium+ subscribers.[34][35]

On March 17, 2024, xAI released Grok-1 asopen source.[36][37]

On March 29, 2024, Grok-1.5 was announced, with "improved reasoning capabilities" and a context length of 128,000 tokens.[38]

On April 12, 2024, Grok-1.5 Vision (Grok-1.5V) was announced. Grok-1.5V is able to process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, graphs, screenshots, and photographs.[39][40]

On August 14, 2024, Grok-2 was made available to X Premium subscribers.[41]It is the first Grok model with image generation capabilities.[42]

On October 21, 2024, xAI released an API.[43]

On December 9, 2024, xAI released a text-to-image model namedAurora.[44]

Notes

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  1. ^The company was incorporated on this date. It was not officially announced until July 12, 2023.

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