It is thought that xAI, a man-made intelligence (AI) startup created by CEO Elon Musk to dam Google’s dominance and keep Open AI in check, is made up of individuals from Google and Open AI.
Business Insider reported on the twenty fourth (local time) that xAI has attracted the very best talent since its official establishment in July of last 12 months, and thru this, has raised $12 billion this 12 months alone, including the recent $6 billion investment.
And the faces of the 12 core members were introduced. Amongst them, as many as seven are from Google and Google DeepMind, and two are from OpenAI.
Amongst them, co-founder Igor Babushkin, accountable for deep learning and reinforcement learning, has a novel experience resulting in DeepMind-OpenAI-DeepMind-xAI. It is usually known that he worked with particle accelerators as a physicist before changing his profession path to machine learning and AI.
Nuel Crois and Tony Wu are key researchers at DeepMind who’ve published several papers. Specifically, Wu has experience working as an intern research scientist at OpenAI for several months.
Christian Segetti, who worked at Google for 14 years, and Toby Pollen, who worked at Google for six years, are also considered key members of xAI. Jihang Dai recently joined Google after working as a senior research scientist for five years.
As well as, Jimmy Ba and Guodong Zhang, students of Professor Jeffrey Hinton on the University of Toronto, Ross Nordin, who was accountable for supercomputing at Tesla, and Greg Yang, who worked as a researcher at Microsoft, were introduced.
Meanwhile, last month, it was reported that CEO Musk pushed for the establishment of Open AI resulting from concerns that Google would reach achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) and develop into an AI dictatorship after failing to accumulate DeepMind in 2014. And last 12 months, it was announced that xAI could be established to maintain Open AI in check.
Last April, he said in regards to the competition for talent within the AI ​​industry, “It is the craziest competition I’ve ever seen.” Specifically, through a recent lawsuit, it was claimed that Open AI had raised the wages of its employees an excessive amount of, causing damage to other firms.
Nevertheless, in line with a report by Business Insider last month, it is thought that xAI employees are paid quite a bit.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
