Elon Musk has denied a report that one in all his firms, Tesla, has mentioned sharing income with one other of his firms, xAI, in order that it could use the startup’s AI fashions.
The Wall Road Journal wrote yesterday that below a proposed settlement described to buyers, Tesla would use xAI fashions in its driver-assistance software program (often known as Full Self-Driving or FSD). The AI startup would additionally assist develop options similar to a voice assistant in Tesla autos and software program for its humanoid robotic Optimus.
Writing on his social media platform X (previously Twitter), Musk stated he hadn’t learn the WSJ story, however he described a submit summarizing the report as “not correct.”
“Tesla has discovered quite a bit from discussions with engineers at xAI which have helped speed up reaching unsupervised FSD, however there isn’t any must license something from xAI,” he wrote. “The xAI fashions are gigantic, containing, in compressed kind, most of human data, and couldn’t probably run on the Tesla automobile inference pc, nor would we wish them to.”
Musk based xAI as a competitor to OpenAI (which he co-founded however finally left). TechCrunch reported earlier this yr that as a part of the pitch for xAI’s $6 billion funding spherical, the startup outlined a imaginative and prescient the place its fashions can be skilled on information from Musk’s varied firms (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Firm, Neuralink, and X), and its fashions might then enhance know-how throughout these firms.
Tesla shareholders have sued Musk over the choice to begin xAI, arguing that Musk has diverted expertise and assets from Tesla to what’s basically a competing firm.
