SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter owner Elon Musk formally announced his new artificial intelligence company, xAI, on a new website Wednesday, officially marking his bid to compete with AI leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft and Google in the race to build computers that might take over more tasks from humans.
Musk has talked about xAI for months, and he registered a new company with that name in Nevada in March. On Wednesday, he unveiled a team of 11 employees, drawn from OpenAI, Google and the University of Toronto, a center of academic AI research. The company is separate from Twitter and Musk's other companies, SpaceX and Tesla, but would work closely with them, according to the site.