Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is reportedly close to raising $6 billion from investors. The funding round would value xAI at $18 billion, Bloomberg reported Friday (April 26). Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital has committed to investing in the startup, according to the Financial Times (FT), which reported the same …
Image Credits: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto / Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI released its Grok large language model as “open source” over the weekend. The billionaire clearly hopes to set his company at odds with rival OpenAI, which despite its name is not particularly open. But does releasing the code for something like Grok actually contribute to …
Elon Musk has officially unveiled his open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. “We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model,” Musk’s xAI said on its website Sunday (March 17). “Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.” The billionaire had announced last week that he was going to …
Groq, an AI chip company, wants everyone to forget about Elon Musk’s snarky chatbot with nearly the same name, Grok. Lightning-fast demos from Groq went viral this weekend, making current versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and even Grok look sluggish. Groq claims to provide “the world’s fastest large language models,” and third-party tests are saying that …
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has dismissed reports on the $500 million worth of funding plans for his artificial intelligence start-up xAI through posts on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter). Replying separately to two users on the site, Musk told one user the information was “simply not accurate” and called the original Bloomberg …
As 2023 ends, I highlight some of the trends that I wrote about in the past year, and how those are panning out in this rapidly accelerating digital world. While the list is not exhaustive, I hope it will provide a clearer picture of where these technology shifts may lead us in 2024. As 2023 …
Amid an onslaught of demand from tech giants rushing to launch and scale their artificial intelligence units, a global chip crunch persists. How one woman turned $10,000 into a successful business | Your Wallet On a call with investors Monday (Dec. 11) to go over quarterly earnings, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison reiterated how hot things remain …
Elon Musk has launched his own AI bot Grok to challenge ChatGPT. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has rolled out Grok for Premium Plus subscribers of X in India. Additionally, Grok’s services are now accessible in 46 other nations, such as Pakistan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore. This development comes after last week’s …
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has released its first AI model, named Gork, to a select group of people. Musk shared a snippet of a chatbot based on xAI’s new “Gork” model, which suggests that it is a large language model similar to that of OpenAI’s GPT and Google’s PaLM.Musk, in a post on …
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire and Tesla CEO said on Friday. This comes nearly a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT caught the imagination of businesses and users around the world, spurring a surge in adoption of generative AI technology. Musk co-founded …