Elon Musk announces new AI start-up

Tesla boss Elon Musk has announced the formation of an artificial intelligence startup.

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The new company is called xAI, and includes several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google. He said the start-up was created to "understand reality".

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The company's website says the goal of xAI is to "understand the true nature of the universe."

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Elon Musk was the one of the original backers of OpenAI, which went on to create the popular large language model ChatGPT, which has - often controversially - become popular for uses

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Mr Musk has also pitted himself against AI companies due to the data they use to train chatbots - the software that learns how humans interacts by scraping masses of data from various sources to fuel its knowledge and interaction styles.

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The billionaire believes vast amounts of Twitter's data is scraped from the platform, and that the company should be adequately compensated.

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