Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) firm, xAI, has successfully raised $6 billion in Series B funding, increasing the firm's valuation to $24 billion. Noteworthy investors in this funding round include Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, and Kingdom Holding.
Established in July 2023, xAI…
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence project, xAI, has unveiled Grok-1.5, a multimodal AI model that outperforms competitors in interpreting real-world scenarios. Similar to models like GPT-4V, Grok-1.5 uses visual processing to analyze a range of content, from documents and diagrams to photographs and screenshots. Alongside improving capabilities in text, coding and math tasks, Grok-1.5 also expands…
In a recent interview with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk predicted that human-level artificial intelligence (AI) could be realised by the end of next year. NBIM is the manager of the world's largest publicly held financial fund, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is increasingly…
Elon Musk's venture, xAI, has released the Grok-1 AI model's code and weights, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-3 by some 150 billion parameters. The release on GitHub and BitTorrent allows worldwide access to the Grok-1's 314 billion parameters, promoting democratic access to sophisticated large language model (LLM) technology. The unrefined version of Grok-1 is available for any…