There were several signs that pointed to X.AI, although of course not to the name itself, but to what it represents. And by the way, one is also another example of the level of hypocrisy that one of the most controversial and media people today can display. I am of course talking about Elon Musk and as you have already seen in the headline of this news, X.AI is the company he founded and with which he intends to compete with OpenAI.

As revealed by The Wall Street Journal, X.AI was founded on March 9 in the state of Nevada in the United States with Elon Musk as the director and his regular number two, Jared Birchall, as company secretary. It also turned out that one of the company’s priorities is find investorsfor which the sale of 100 million shares of the company was allowed but would remain unlisted private, Musk’s favorite formula for his companies.

Over the past few months, it has become clear that Musk tried to attract talent from other technology companies devoted to artificial intelligence, primarily from OpenAI, although his efforts in this regard would not be as fruitful as he would like. A few days ago it was also leaked that Musk produced a great investment when buying a 10,000 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUa true beast that, as the name suggests, has one of its strengths in AI-related tasks.

So more and more signals were added pointing in that direction, so the confirmation indicated by TWSJ was not a surprise. In addition, this is not the first time that Elon Musk has become interested in the artificial intelligence sectorHe was one of the founding partners of OpenAIalthough it is true that He left it in 2018 after a power struggle in which he clashed with the company’s current CEOSam Altman, something that would explain both the animosity he feels towards the tech company and the CEO, and his interest in competing with the creators of ChatGPT.

Although we have next to no data on X.AI, both rumors and common sense suggest that it is intended to compete with OpenAI, which brings me to what I have already mentioned, the deep level of Musk’s hypocrisy. Let’s recall that just a few weeks ago, he signed a manifesto with other well-known names from the world of science and technology, in which companies in this sector were invited to hit the brakes and stop all AI development for six months. ., waiting for increasingly necessary regulations.

So that’s surprising at the same time he signed the said document, he was founding X.AI and tries to attract talent from companies it intends to compete with. Are you really worried about the future of AI or were you just trying to buy some time to race in better conditions? Maybe I’m being rude, but I’m pretty clear about how I feel about it. What do you think?