Musk Launches Company in Response to Zuckerberg’s Topics – Money Times

The race for tech billionaires continues: Elon Musk Announce that he owns a new company. This Wednesday (12), I am announcing the launch of a startup for artificial intelligencecalled xAI.

the purpose of startup, According to the company’s website, is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” The billionaire plans to have a discussion with the xAI team on Thursday (14) via Twitter Spaces.

Musk, who also owns SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, will be supported by a team made up of professionals who have worked at Google, Microsoft, DeepMind and OpenAI, as well as Tesla and the University of Toronto.

“Announcing the formation of xAI to understand reality,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

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Announcing formation xAI to understand reality

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– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2023

The announcement of the new company comes about a week after Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, released a version threadsa new social network similar to Twitter. The platform surpassed 10 million users just seven hours after its launch.

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The plot involving a possible fight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk takes on increasingly surreal features.

Rumors circulating in the American press show that the Minister of Culture Italy He would reach out to Zuckerberg to offer the billionaire a possible site for his clash with Musk: the colosseum in rome, One of the Seven Wonders of the World and an ancient spectacle of battles made to entertain the Roman people (the so-called Bread and circuses).

After the call, Zuckerberg had passed the offer on to Dana White, the president of the UFC and likely organizer of the encounter.

However, a dispute between billionaires can also take place in court. In an open letter to Zuckerberg, who owns Musk’s own copy, Twitter attorney Alex Spiro accused Meta of stealing “trade secrets” from the platform to develop “copycat killer” (as the letter says) leads.

This process was supposed to occur due to the employment of workers who were fired from Twitter, after the purchase of the network by Elon Musk.