Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more seamless,” according to a former employee. spoke to The Verge Regarding Musk’s recent departure from his AI company. This week, after that announcement Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which had previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders…

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Anthropic closes in on $20B round

Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reportsDue to demand from investors the company had to raise twice the amount it had set out to receive. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding. just five months agoBut intense competition among frontier…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI in talks to merge, report says

SpaceX and XAI, both companies led by Elon Musk, could merge ahead of the planned SpaceX IPO this year, according to a report From Reuters. It will bring together products like the Grok chatbot, the X platform, Starlink satellites and SpaceX rockets under one corporation. Company representatives have not publicly discussed this possibility. However, recent…

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ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI has begun to appear in replies to ChatGPT. XAI launched GrowWikipedia in October after Musk complained that Wikipedia was biased against conservatives. Reporters soon noted that while many articles appeared to be Copied directly from WikipediaGrow Wikipedia too claimed Pornography contributed to the AIDS…

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xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding

XAI, Elon Musk’s AI company behind the Grok chatbot – also X is the owner – Announced that it has raised $20 billion in a Series E funding round. the company wrote a blog post Investors will include Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority and Nvidia and Cisco, among others, as “strategic investors.” XAI…

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xAI reportedly lays off 500 workers from data annotation team

Alon Musk’s AI Startup XAI closed 500 team members on Friday night, according to Business internal messages viewed by internal formula, These emails reportedly announce an immediate “strategic pivot”, with the company “our experts decide to accelerate the expansion and priority of AI Tutors, while General AI focuses on tutor roles.” “As part of this…

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