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☆ How Elon Musk hopes his new supercomputers will boost his businesses
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Magdalena Petrova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Dojo will process and train AI models using the large amounts of video and data captured by Tesla cars. Subscriptions to Tesla's FSD features cost $99 a month and include automatic lane changes, automatic parking and automatic stopping for traffic lights and stop signs. Tesla hopes Dojo, which Musk says has been running tasks for Tesla since 2023, will change that. Musk has said that Tesla plans to spend $10 billion this year on AI. To learn more about Elon Musk's supercomputer plans, watch the video.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, They've, let's, Steven Dickens, Cruise, Didi, Musk Organizations: Futurum, Baidu, Microsoft, Google, Memphis, Elon Locations: Buffalo , New York, Austin , Texas, China, Memphis , Tennessee

☆ How Elon Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But now Musk, who is not only the owner but also the most followed user on X, has shifted to more direct campaigning for former President Donald Trump. Musk announced his official endorsement for Trump in a post last month that received 2.3 million likes. Weeks after it was posted, the video is not labeled with a “community note,” X’s community fact-checking feature that Musk used as justification for slashing the company’s trust and safety team. In a letter, the secretaries urged Musk to “immediately implement changes” on the X platform. But on Monday night, Musk offered to take a role in the potential future Trump’s administration helping to rein in government spending.

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☆ Secretaries of State say X's AI shared false election information
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Five secretaries of state on Monday urged Elon Musk to fix his social media platform X’s artificial intelligence search assistant after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 presidential election. “In all nine states the opposite is true,” said the letter, which was first reported by The Washington Post. In Monday’s letter, the secretaries of state wrote that Grok’s false claim was “shared on multiple social media platforms” within hours of Biden’s announcement. But “the false information about ballot deadlines has been captured and shared repeatedly in multiple posts — reaching millions of people,” the officials wrote. “Furthermore, Grok continued to repeat this false information for more than a week until it was corrected on July 31, 2024,” the letter alleged.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, chatbot Grok, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris, ‘, Steve Simon, “, ”, Simon, Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania, Simon Steve Hobbs, Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson, Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Schmidt, Grok, X, OpenAI’s Organizations: Monday, SpaceX, Democratic, The Washington Post, Republican, CNBC, Trump, Republicans, America PAC Locations: Pennsylvania , Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Alabama , Indiana , Ohio , Texas, Washington, United States

☆ Elon Musk's X AI shared false election information after Biden dropped out, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Five secretaries of state on Monday urged Elon Musk to fix his social media platform X's artificial intelligence search assistant after it allegedly shared false information about the 2024 presidential election . Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, had endorsed Republican presidential nominee Trump before Biden quit the race and backed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. "In all nine states the opposite is true," said the letter, which was first reported by The Washington Post. Musk has previously said that he created and is donating to a political action committee that is supporting Trump and Republicans. That group, America PAC, is being investigated by Benson's office over its efforts to collect voter data in key swing states.

Persons: Musk, chatbot Grok, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris, Steve Simon, Simon, Al Schmidt, Steve Hobbs, Jocelyn Benson of, Maggie Toulouse Oliver, Schmidt Organizations: Monday, SpaceX, Democratic, The Washington Post, Pennsylvania, Republican, CNBC, Trump, Republicans, America PAC Locations: Pennsylvania , Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Alabama , Indiana , Ohio , Texas, Washington, United States, Jocelyn Benson of Michigan

☆ Elon Musk gives a hint at just how much his AI chatbot cost to develop
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewElon Musk just hinted at how much it cost to make his AI chatbot Grok. Knowing how many H100 GPUs Musk is getting allows us to do some napkin math to figure out a rough estimate of the cost. Mark Zuckerberg said in January that Meta will have purchased about 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. Aravind Srinivas, founder and CEO of AI startup Perplexity, talked about getting turned down by a Meta AI researcher he was trying to poach in part because of Zuckerberg's huge collection of AI chips. 'Come back to me when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs,'" Srinivas said.

Persons: —, Elon, chatbot, Hopper, Musk, Nicolai Tangen, xAI, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Aravind Srinivas, Srinivas Organizations: Service, Business, Nvidia, Twitter, Meta Locations: Silicon Valley

☆ Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is annoyed with SpaceX's big rocket launches
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jaures Yip | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, recently filed concerns to the FAA about Elon Musk's SpaceX, requesting that Starship's launch operations be potentially limited over environmental impact concerns. The SpaceX launch system is a work in progress. It also employs multiple properties "all within the vicinity " of SpaceX's proposed Super Heavy booster launches, Blue Origin said. SpaceX plans to launch 44 Starship-Super Heavy missions per year under a NASA lease, Blue Origin wrote in the filing. Neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin immediately responded to Business Insider's requests for comments ahead of publication.

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☆ Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Correspondence from Nvidia staffers also indicates that Musk diverted a sizable shipment of AI processors that had been reserved for Tesla to his social media company X, formerly known as Twitter. "Elon prioritizing X H100 GPU cluster deployment at X versus Tesla by redirecting 12k of shipped H100 GPUs originally slated for Tesla to X instead," an Nvidia memo from December said. In a post on X in November, Musk wrote, "X Corp investors will own 25% of xAI." At Tesla, Musk has promised to build a $500 million "Dojo" supercomputer in Buffalo, New York, and a "super dense, water-cooled supercomputer cluster" at the company's factory in Austin, Texas. WATCH: Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips to X

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☆ Now you can invest in Elon Musk's xAI through Cathie Wood's ARK Venture Fund
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest has taken a stake in Elon Musk's startup xAI as she deepens her big bet on artificial intelligence. ARK Venture Fund has invested in xAI as of Sunday, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based asset manager said in an email to clients Tuesday evening. The xAI startup is also not the only Musk-led company Wood's venture fund bets on. The venture fund, launched in September 2022, targets smaller investors who can access the venture capital market through it with as little as $500. The xAI startup is reportedly planning to build a supercomputer to power the next version of its AI chatbot Grok.

Persons: Catherine Wood, Musk, Wood, Tesla Organizations: ARK Investment Management LLC, ARK Venture Fund, SpaceX, X Corp, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Innovation Locations: Miami , Florida, U.S, Elon Musk's, xAI, St . Petersburg , Florida, OpenAI

☆ Elon Musk says AI has no 'use' at SpaceX — at least for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX "basically uses no AI." "I mean, oddly enough, one of the areas where there's almost no AI used is space exploration," Musk replied. "So SpaceX uses basically no AI, Starlink does not use AI. At X, Musk integrated his AI chatbot Grok — similar to ChatGPT — into the social media platform. Musk also considered using AI to help summarize news on the site.

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☆ Elon Musk welcomes competition from humanoid robot rivals: 'Bring it on'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Camilo Fonseca | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk isn't fazed by a humanoid robot startup's newly announced collaboration with OpenAI. Musk is also making a humanoid robot, Optimus, through Tesla. "Bring it on," Musk posted in response to Figure AI cofounder Brett Adcock's Thursday announcement of a collaboration with OpenAI to develop AI-powered machines. The comment was a tacit acknowledgment that Figure and OpenAI are rivals to the Tesla CEO's own AI ambitions. Musk unveiled tech startup xAI last year, which debuted AI chatbot Grok last November.

Persons: Elon, OpenAI, —, they're, Musk, Brett Adcock's, Tesla, chatbot Grok Organizations: Tesla, Service, Business

☆ The gloves are off among Silicon Valley CEOs
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Silicon Valley CEOs are doing battle in public. AdvertisementThe Silicon Valley elite have been at each other's throats a little more than usual lately. AdvertisementThe latest example of this came this week when Mark Zuckerberg derided Apple's Vision Pro headset in an Instagram video. The Vision Pro is a direct competitor to Meta's Quest Pro but Zuckerberg does not appear concerned for now. “If you go back to the PC era, Microsoft’s open model was the winner, and in this next generation Meta is going to be the open model, and I really want to make sure that the open model wins out again.”Zuckerberg has good reason to be on the offense.

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☆ Elon Musk compares the AI race to playing poker — you need to spend billions every year just to sit at the table
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewElon Musk has compared the AI arms race to a high stakes game of poker, with companies needing to spend billions on AI hardware just to stay competitive. "Tesla will spend more than that on Nvidia hardware this year. The table stakes for being competitive in AI are at least several billion dollars per year at this point," he added. AdvertisementThe billionaire previously said on X that Tesla is an AI and robotics company rather than a carmaker. In a post on X, he said he was "uncomfortable" building up Tesla's AI capacity without having more control of the company.

Persons: —, Elon, Tesla, Mark Zuckerberg, Musk Organizations: Service, Business, Nvidia, eBay, AMD, SpaceX

☆ Elon Musk heats up the AI wars. He's seeking $1 billion for xAI.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk wants to raise up to $1 billion for his AI startup xAI, according to an SEC filing. AdvertisementElon Musk is looking to raise up to $1 billion to help fund his AI startup xAI. And this isn't Musk's first foray into AI: Years before the billionaire launched xAI, Musk actually cofounded OpenAI with Sam Altman in 2015. But in 2018, Musk left OpenAI because his offer to run the company was rejected, he's said. It comes as there's a lot of money sloshing around AI: OpenAI has reportedly been seeking a share sale that could value it at $90 billion.

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☆ Elon Musk escalates AI chatbot spat with Sam Altman: 'GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are taking swipes at each other on X.Musk fired back at Altman after the OpenAI CEO mocked his "rebellious" AI chatbot Grok. AdvertisementAdvertisementFormer colleagues Elon Musk and Sam Altman are swiping at each other's products. Musk fired back at Altman after the OpenAI CEO mocked his '"rebellious" AI chatbot Grok. The OpenAI CEO asked the system to create a bot with "cringey boomer humor in an awkward shock-to-get-laughs sort of way." Despite cofounding OpenAI together in 2015, Musk and Altman have been publically sniping at each other over the last year.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Musk, Grok, Altman, —, ChatGPT, Christopher Stanley, OpenAI's, cofounding OpenAI Organizations: Altman, Service, X Locations: OpenAI

☆ Linda Yaccarino shows support for Elon Musk's AI chatbot with a cringe post about using it to explain the 'birds and the bees'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Linda Yaccarino is showing support for Elon Musk's latest project, the AI chatbot Grok. "I wish I knew Grok during the Birds and the Bees talk with my kids," she said on X. AdvertisementAdvertisementLinda Yaccarino has been praising Elon Musk's latest project, the "rebellious" AI chatbot Grok. Despite the potentially inappropriate language, X CEO Yaccarino was enthusiastic about the bot's educational potential. During a disastrous interview at Code Conference in September, Yaccarino defended Musk's leadership and said the pair talked "about everything."

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