Musk recruits team develop ChatGPT rival: According to sources with firsthand knowledge of the project, Mr. Elon Musk has recently addressed AI researchers about establishing a new lab to create a competition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This information was provided by the Information on Monday.
Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who just departed Alphabet’s DeepMind AI division, has been sought after by Tesla and Twitter CEO Musk, according to the story.
The study comes after ChatGPT, an OpenAI text-based chatbot that can create prose, poetry, or even computer code when instructed, attracted a lot of interest in Silicon Valley.
Although he had stepped off from the board of OpenAI, which he and Silicon Valley financier Sam Altman had co-founded in 2015 as a nonprofit startup, Mr. Musk nevertheless offered his opinion on the chatbot, calling it “scary fantastic.”
According to the story, which quoted an interview with Mr. Babuschkin, Mr. Musk and Mr. Babuschkin have discussed putting together a team to do AI research, but the initiative is still in its early phases and has no clear plan to build any particular goods.
According to the newspaper, Mr. Babuschkin stated that he has not formally endorsed the Musk initiative.
We were unable to immediately reach Mr. Musk or Mr. Babuschkin for comment.