According to Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, “an important third horse needs to enter the AI ​​race” alongside tech giants Microsoft and Google.

In addition to Google and Microsoft, according to Elon Musk, the world needs a third major player in the field of AI. He’s keen to take on the challenge, and there’s a good chance Twitter and Tesla will play a part in those plans.

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Elon Musk attended the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London via video call. He discussed a variety of topics including artificial intelligence and his ambitions in the field.

These plans don’t come out of the blue. He was one of the founders of OpenAI, which he continued to support after retiring as a board member, and founded a new artificial intelligence company, X.AI, last month. He also recently stated that he wants to create a competitor to ChatGPT and Google Bard under the name TruthGPT. That might have been more of a statement than a plan, but the fact is that Musk recently bought 10,000 GPUs. Undoubtedly, it’s not just about having a stock as a precaution.

Like the collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI, according to Elon Musk, X.AI can work with Tesla and Twitter, the two flagship products in its portfolio. The latter is currently still loss-making, but Musk is confident it can start generating positive cash flow as early as next month.

The Tesla boss was recently one of many names to call for a six-month hiatus on AI development because of the risks involved in evolving too quickly. The question is whether he also sees this in his own companies.