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Meet the power players at Elon Musk's xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot
- Elon Musk's xAI has raised more than $12 billion and is valued at $50 billion.
- The founding members of xAI have experience at the likes of Google, OpenAI and Tesla.
- To compete with rivals like OpenAI and Google, xAI plans to tenfold the size of its Memphis supercomputer.
- Meet the key figures at xAI who are driving the startup's rapid growth including Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang and Zihang Dai.
- Launched by Musk in July 2023 to take on OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, xAI's lofty goal is to "understand the universe."
- Since its launch, xAI has released a chatbot called Grok, which is now free for everyone to use.
- Grok has been trained on user data from X, the company formerly known as Twitter, which Musk also owns.
- To compete with rivals like OpenAI and Google, xAI plans to tenfold the size of its Memphis supercomputer, which trains its AI models.
- Manuel Kroiss coauthored several research papers on machine learning.
- Yuhuai (Tony) Wu previously worked at Google and Google DeepMind and spent a few months as a research scientist intern at OpenAI.
- Christian Szegedy joined xAI from Google, where he spent 14 years of his career.
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