Elon Musk

Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Information ...

The Tesla CEO has been enlisting former DeepMind senior researcher Igor Babuschkin to head up the project, per the publication. It added that Babuschkin ...

[company](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-defends-role-in-openai-chat-gpt-microsoft-2023-2?r=US&IR=T) and the viral chatbot. Musk [ said at the time](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1606642155346612229), "There is great danger in training an AI to lie." He has previously worked at [OpenAI,](https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-google-ai-employees-hired-report-2023-2?r=US&IR=T) according to his LinkedIn profile. But he added that creating a chatbot with fewer safeguards was not Musk's objective. [behind ChatGPT,](https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-chaos-openia-google-creatives-academics-2023-1?r=US&IR=T) in 2015 but [parted ways](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-leaves-board-ai-safety-group-openai-2018-2?r=US&IR=T) with the company in 2018. [DeepMind](https://www.businessinsider.com/former-deepmind-employees-who-founded-own-AI-startups-2022-3?r=US&IR=T) senior researcher Igor Babuschkin to head up the project, per the publication.

Unhappy with OpenAI, which he co-founded, Musk is reportedly in talks with recently departed DeepMind AI researcher Igor Babuschkin.

Since last year, Musk has been distracted with tinkering with Twitter and getting in online fights, and is unlikely to stop soon. Back in December, Musk [criticized OpenAI](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603836383885332480) for “training AI to be woke.” In January, The researcher went on to say that he had not officially agreed to join Musk’s fledging lab yet. “Not what I intended at all.” [response to a post](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034) about the risks of AI, Musk stated that the OpenAI of today was not what he envisioned.

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According to the report, Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a former researcher for Alphabet's DeepMind AI unit. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with ...

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman as a nonprofit startup, but the billionaire left the board in 2018. [AI](https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/is-ai-a-risk-to-creativity-the-answer-is-not-so-simple/439525) is "one of the biggest risks to the future of civilization," per [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/elon-musk-co-founder-of-chatgpt-creator-openai-warns-of-ai-society-risk.html). [How to Use ChatGPT to Save Time and Make Work Easier](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-save-time-and-make-work-easier/444622) [Elon Musk Calls Media 'Racist' in Response to Dilbert Creator](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-calls-media-racist-in-response-to-dilbert/446540) [Elon Musk](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/bings-new-chatbot-has-threatened-and-flirted-with-users/445922) has asked AI researchers to help him launch a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20230228&instance_id=86488&nl=dealbook®i_id=193011339&segment_id=126489&te=1&user_id=924f352f0dd8666ef3c2486e55d8ca52) reported on Monday, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. [ChatGPT](https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/chatgpt-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work/445014) and Microsoft's [Bing chatbot](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/bings-new-chatbot-has-threatened-and-flirted-with-users/445922) have dominated headlines in recent weeks, and now it seems Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is ready to make some moves of his own.

The Tesla CEO has a wealth of $187 billion, leaving behind French business magnate, Bernard Arnault who is at the second position with a total wealth of $185 ...

Benchmark bond yields in India climbed to their highest since the first week of November as tightening liquidity and concerns over higher government borrowing in FY24 dented demand for sovereign debt. [social media](/definition/social-media)platform, Twitter in October 2022. Two of India’s leading indices fell nearly 0.5% on Monday to extend losses for a seventh straight session. So far, Musk’s wealth has risen to $50 billion in 2023 and he currently possesses a 13% stake in Tesla. The Tesla CEO has a wealth of $187 billion, leaving behind French business magnate, Bernard Arnault who is at the second position with a total wealth of $185 billion. The Nasdaq 100 Index has jumped 11% until now this year.

After developing ChatGPT, the blockbuster Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can write prose, poetry and even computer code, OpenAI founder Elon Musk is ...

He has even called the AI "scary good" But these versions have so far not been able to compete with ChatGPT which has had almost flawless run till now. After developing ChatGPT, the blockbuster Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can write prose, poetry and even computer code, OpenAI founder Elon Musk is reportedly assembling a team to develop another AI that will rival the former.

CEO of Tesla and Twitter, Elon Musk, has hired a team of AI researchers to work on developing an alternative to ChatGPT, a powerful chatbot.

Analytics Insight and the team is not accountable for the investment views provided in the article. The report further suggests that Tesla and [CEO](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-5-data-science-best-practices-generated-by-chatgpt/) [Elon Musk](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/chinas-ai-revolution-top-tech-companies-embrace-chatgpt-like-technology/) is currently in discussions to hire Igor Babuschkin, a former researcher at Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit, to spearhead the development of a high-profile chatbot rivaling the one created by OpenAI. [Elon Musk hires AI researchers](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/chatgpt-helps-ceo-to-recover-us109500-from-a-ghosted-client/) with a proposal to establish a new research laboratory focused on creating a [ChatGPT alternative](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-ways-chatgpt-can-help-data-scientists/).

Elon Musk's net wealth currently stands at around $187 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

(ticker: TSLA) stock is up around 69% this year. The surge in Tesla stock has led to Musk regaining the crown he lost last year but he’s still nursing a huge loss on paper. Elon Musk has moved back to the top of the rankings of the world’s richest people.

Reports of more layoffs at Twitter Inc landed on Monday as owner Elon Musk waded into a racism controversy that risked pushing advertisers further away from ...

Musk made his comment in regard to backlash to a rant by Scott Adams, creator of the long-running Dilbert comic strip — a satirical take on office life. “This year will be a challenging time for recruiting the right talent amid economic uncertainties,” although companies are continuing efforts to build sustainable workforces, the report said. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for March delivery rose 1.23 percent to US$76.32 a barrel after earlier adding 1.5 percent. “It’s as though Elon Musk is on a whirlwind tour to try to put Twitter out of business,” independent tech analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said. Reports of more layoffs at Twitter Inc landed on Monday as owner Elon Musk waded into a racism controversy that risked pushing advertisers further away from the struggling platform. “There is just too much downside risk of damaging your brand and alienating your customers.”

SpaceX and Twitter owner Musk is recruiting researcher Igor Babuschkin, who recently left Alphabet's DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, to form a team that ...

SpaceX and Twitter owner Musk is recruiting researcher Igor Babuschkin, who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, to form a team that can compete with SpaceX and Twitter owner Elon Musk are collaborating to rival ChatGPT in artificial intelligence technology. Elon Musk Will Rival ChatGPT

Chinese state media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he could be endangering his relationship with China after Musk shared tweets about a Wuhan laboratory.

The FBI reached a [similar conclusion](https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a) at a "moderate confidence" level in 2021. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be "breaking the pot of China" after the Tesla and Twitter CEO Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer's A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he shared reporting on the U.S. - Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking his relationship with China after he retweeted about the U.S. Department of Energy's "low confidence" assessment that the global Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.

San Francisco: Twitter is down to less than 2,000 employees from 7,500 a few months ago and now US Senator Ed Markey has called on Twitter CEO Elon Musk to ...

“Your decision to eliminate Twitter’s Accessibility Team therefore represents a dramatic and unwelcome shift, one that has already had devastating consequences for Twitter users with disabilities,” the Senator stressed. Twitter’s accessibility team was responsible for features that allowed disabled Twitter users to develop a community, advocate on key issues, organise, share information, and engage in commercial activity on Twitter. “I urge you to immediately reinstate Twitter’s Accessibility Team and take all necessary steps to promote accessibility for disabled Twitter users,” the Senator added.

Musk's recovery of the top spot from the French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault follows a precipitous drop in his wealth in late 2022, when he became the ...

[Shareholders filed another lawsuit](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-tesla-lawsuit-autopilot) on Monday against Musk alleging that Tesla’s repeated exaggeration of its self-driving capabilities amounted to fraud. Musk also keeps courting controversy through his erratic and provocative behavior online. [threw his support behind Scott Adams](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-backs-dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-racist-controversy), the Dilbert cartoonist whose racist rant in a recent YouTube appearance has led to the cancellation of his comic strip in US newspapers. [new factory](https://apnews.com/article/tesla-mexico-musk-lopez-obrador-07e5223eecd63b7af8330879ff1312b3) in the city of Monterrey. [two-thirds](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/03/tesla-shares-price-value-decline-elon-musk) of its value in 2022, amid investor concerns over weakening demand, Musk’s distracting purchase of Twitter and the [tumultuous start](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/revenue-tesla-elon-musks-twitter-staff-investors) to his tenure atop the social media platform. [fired an additional 200 employees](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-fires-additional-200-people-at-twitter-report-says) over the weekend after already slashing the workforce from 7,500 to about 2,000 since October, the share price of Tesla has risen nearly 90% since the start of 2023.

Elon Musk's repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren't enough people to triage Twitter's problems.

Wong tweeted that the number of likes had dropped on a tweet of hers, catching Mr. Musk fired Nelson Abramson,](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html) who held that job. 24, Twitter shuttered a data center in Sacramento, which had helped handle much of the web traffic to the service. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Twitter was known for regular failures and its “Fail Whale,” an image of a whale being airlifted by a flock of birds that appeared when the site did not function. In an email to employees on Monday, which was seen by The New York Times, Mr. And Twitter is under scrutiny for [a rise in hate speech](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html) and its treatment of workers. “It used to be that you’d see smaller things fail, but now Twitter is going down completely for certain regions of the world,” said Saagar Jha, a Twitter engineer who left in May. [more precarious since November](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-workers-quit.html), seven current and former employees said. In the past, Twitter prevented breakages from escalating by having people around to diagnose and solve problems immediately. The technology challenges add to Mr. [another round of layoffs on Saturday](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/technology/twitter-layoffs.html), Twitter has fewer than 2,000 employees, down from 7,500 when Mr. The company is trying to lure back advertisers, even as Mr.

Tesla/SpaceX/Twitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly on the hunt for a team to build an artificial intelligence platform to go head-to-head with natural ...

[jumped](https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1622964339517923328) into the conversation around AI refusing to say a racial slur, calling Musk’s critics “morally illiterate,” per Forbes. Those potential recruits include Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit and specializes in the kind of machine-learning models that power chatbots like ChatGPT. Thompson, ChatGPT will easily churn that out for you in just a matter of moments. Musk took to Twitter in December, calling ChatGPT “scary good” and predicting that its performance was evidence that “we are not far from dangerously strong AI.” But he followed that up with another Twitter posting later in the month, claiming that “training AI to be woke — in other words lie — is deadly.” As of midday Tuesday, Tesla stock was trading at just under $206 per share, up over 90% since the start of the year. In a fun plot twist, Musk has been a vocal critic of ChatGPT creators for placing limitations on offensive content even though he was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, the company that started in 2015 and went on to develop a series of natural language processors, including ChatGPT.

Musk, who co-founded ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI, has approached AI researchers about forming a research lab, The Information reports.

Babuschkin also told the publication that he hasn't officially joined the project. He's busy running businesses including Tesla, the maker of electric cars; Twitter, the social media service; and SpaceX, the rocket maker and satellite internet service provider. Musk has cut ties with OpenAI.

The Global Times called out Tesla CEO Elon Musk for responding to reports about the origination of the coronavirus.

(There are [two primary theories](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/china-covid-wuhan-lab-energy-department/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) of how the coronavirus infected humans, according to The Washington Post’s Philip Bump.) “abuse” of the international community. [report](https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a?mod=hp_lead_pos4) that the U.S. Musk has become a polarizing figure — some conservative leaders have praised his pledge to prioritize “free speech” online, but critics have expressed concern that his policies could increase hate speech on the site. Musk has previously pushed back on covid restrictions during the pandemic and called for Musk was responding to a tweet that brought up an unfounded conspiracy theory that Anthony S.

Twitter Inc. is seeking to sublease New York office space as the technology company looks to curb costs.

Shortly after San Francisco–based startup OpenAI introduced ChatGPT last November, it took the world by storm with its ability to turn simple prompts into ...

He also previously worked at OpenAI, according to [his LinkedIn.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-babuschkin-9bb5bab6/) [DeepMind](https://fortune.com/company/deepmind/), a subsidiary of Google’s parent, Alphabet, focusing on A.I. Since the buzz was rekindled last year, Musk hasn’t been shy to point out the shortcomings of ChatGPT and, specifically, the guardrails that OpenAI has in place. researchers recently about creating a lab that would work toward developing a rival to ChatGPT, The Information [reported](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival?rc=jvzpjw) Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. [Microsoft](https://fortune.com/company/microsoft/) unveiled its new Bing with A.I. The self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist cofounded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization, an answer to Big Tech companies that were making money from A.I. Earlier this month, Musk [criticized OpenAI](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034) for going against its initial purpose of being an open-source nonprofit that would “counterweight” [tweet](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1603833319556124672?s=20) about people’s contradicting uses of A.I. While Musk has not confirmed any specifics regarding his new passion project, he has reportedly tapped Igor Babuschkin to lead the new A.I. Igor Babuschkin did not immediately return Fortune’s request for comment. tech related to ChatGPT, the bot even developed an unsettling, sometimes “ [unhinged](https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-unhinged-scared/)” personality. Babuschkin worked at [reclaimed](https://fortune.com/2023/02/28/elon-musk-worlds-richest-person-again-tesla-shares-rally/) that title) has been in talks with A.I.

A columnist at one of China's key state newspapers warned Elon Musk against perpetuating the theory that Covid-19 leaked from a laboratory in the country.

Elon Musk has been slashing costs since taking over Twitter last year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The 17th Street buildings were among a handful of properties tied up in a recent default by Pimco’s Columbia Property Trust. An email seeking comment from Twitter wasn’t returned immediately; the company previously laid off its entire public relations department. That’s adding to the woes of many landlords in the city, who relied on large technology firms in recent years as a driver of leasing.

Elon Musk today confirmed our big story from yesterday that he's been recruiting a team to build an AI and chatbot that is “anti-woke.

“Based” is internet slang that is often used as an antonym for wokeness. Today, Musk Elon Musk today confirmed