Elon Musk

The Tesla CEO has been enlisting former DeepMind senior researcher Igor Babuschkin to head up the project, per the publication. It added that Babuschkin ...

[company](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-defends-role-in-openai-chat-gpt-microsoft-2023-2?r=US&IR=T) and the viral chatbot. Musk [ said at the time](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1606642155346612229), "There is great danger in training an AI to lie." He has previously worked at [OpenAI,](https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-google-ai-employees-hired-report-2023-2?r=US&IR=T) according to his LinkedIn profile. But he added that creating a chatbot with fewer safeguards was not Musk's objective. [behind ChatGPT,](https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-chaos-openia-google-creatives-academics-2023-1?r=US&IR=T) in 2015 but [parted ways](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-leaves-board-ai-safety-group-openai-2018-2?r=US&IR=T) with the company in 2018. [DeepMind](https://www.businessinsider.com/former-deepmind-employees-who-founded-own-AI-startups-2022-3?r=US&IR=T) senior researcher Igor Babuschkin to head up the project, per the publication.

Unhappy with OpenAI, which he co-founded, Musk is reportedly in talks with recently departed DeepMind AI researcher Igor Babuschkin.

Since last year, Musk has been distracted with tinkering with Twitter and getting in online fights, and is unlikely to stop soon. Back in December, Musk [criticized OpenAI](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603836383885332480) for “training AI to be woke.” In January, The researcher went on to say that he had not officially agreed to join Musk’s fledging lab yet. “Not what I intended at all.” [response to a post](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034) about the risks of AI, Musk stated that the OpenAI of today was not what he envisioned.

According to the report, Musk has been recruiting Igor Babuschkin, a former researcher for Alphabet's DeepMind AI unit. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with ...

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman as a nonprofit startup, but the billionaire left the board in 2018. [AI](https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/is-ai-a-risk-to-creativity-the-answer-is-not-so-simple/439525) is "one of the biggest risks to the future of civilization," per [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/elon-musk-co-founder-of-chatgpt-creator-openai-warns-of-ai-society-risk.html). [How to Use ChatGPT to Save Time and Make Work Easier](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-save-time-and-make-work-easier/444622) [Elon Musk Calls Media 'Racist' in Response to Dilbert Creator](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-calls-media-racist-in-response-to-dilbert/446540) [Elon Musk](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/bings-new-chatbot-has-threatened-and-flirted-with-users/445922) has asked AI researchers to help him launch a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20230228&instance_id=86488&nl=dealbook®i_id=193011339&segment_id=126489&te=1&user_id=924f352f0dd8666ef3c2486e55d8ca52) reported on Monday, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. [ChatGPT](https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/chatgpt-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work/445014) and Microsoft's [Bing chatbot](https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/bings-new-chatbot-has-threatened-and-flirted-with-users/445922) have dominated headlines in recent weeks, and now it seems Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk is ready to make some moves of his own.

The Tesla CEO has a wealth of $187 billion, leaving behind French business magnate, Bernard Arnault who is at the second position with a total wealth of $185 ...

Benchmark bond yields in India climbed to their highest since the first week of November as tightening liquidity and concerns over higher government borrowing in FY24 dented demand for sovereign debt. [social media](/definition/social-media)platform, Twitter in October 2022. Two of India’s leading indices fell nearly 0.5% on Monday to extend losses for a seventh straight session. So far, Musk’s wealth has risen to $50 billion in 2023 and he currently possesses a 13% stake in Tesla. The Tesla CEO has a wealth of $187 billion, leaving behind French business magnate, Bernard Arnault who is at the second position with a total wealth of $185 billion. The Nasdaq 100 Index has jumped 11% until now this year.

After developing ChatGPT, the blockbuster Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can write prose, poetry and even computer code, OpenAI founder Elon Musk is ...

He has even called the AI "scary good" But these versions have so far not been able to compete with ChatGPT which has had almost flawless run till now. After developing ChatGPT, the blockbuster Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can write prose, poetry and even computer code, OpenAI founder Elon Musk is reportedly assembling a team to develop another AI that will rival the former.

CEO of Tesla and Twitter, Elon Musk, has hired a team of AI researchers to work on developing an alternative to ChatGPT, a powerful chatbot.

Analytics Insight and the team is not accountable for the investment views provided in the article. The report further suggests that Tesla and [CEO](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-5-data-science-best-practices-generated-by-chatgpt/) [Elon Musk](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/chinas-ai-revolution-top-tech-companies-embrace-chatgpt-like-technology/) is currently in discussions to hire Igor Babuschkin, a former researcher at Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit, to spearhead the development of a high-profile chatbot rivaling the one created by OpenAI. [Elon Musk hires AI researchers](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/chatgpt-helps-ceo-to-recover-us109500-from-a-ghosted-client/) with a proposal to establish a new research laboratory focused on creating a [ChatGPT alternative](https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-ways-chatgpt-can-help-data-scientists/).

Generative AI is rapidly gaining traction for the tasks it can accomplish.

He paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter last year. [who reclaimed the title of the world's richest person on Monday](https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/money/2023/02/28/elon-musk-is-worlds-richest-person-once-again/), is willing to invest in his chatbot venture. [Bard made an error](https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2023/02/09/google-bard-error-wipes-100bn-from-alphabets-market-cap/) in a promotional video during the company's Live in Paris event, causing $100 billion to be wiped-off Google's market value. [artificial intelligence](https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/future/2023/02/17/ai-is-a-weapon-of-mass-disruption-ian-bremmer-warns/) researchers in the endeavour, The Information reported on Monday. [ Microsoft](https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2023/01/19/microsoft-layoffs-10000-jobs/) announced the third phase of its long-term partnership with OpenAI through a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. [Elon Musk](https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/future/2023/02/23/elon-musk-gives-glimpse-of-cybertruck-at-teslas-new-engineering-headquarters/) is reportedly assembling a team, which includes a former engineer at a unit of Google parent Alphabet, to develop a rival to OpenAI's text-based chatbot ChatGPT.

Elon Musk's net wealth currently stands at around $187 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

(ticker: TSLA) stock is up around 69% this year. The surge in Tesla stock has led to Musk regaining the crown he lost last year but he’s still nursing a huge loss on paper. Elon Musk has moved back to the top of the rankings of the world’s richest people.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is back in news for firing Twitter employees over the weekend. Last weekend, Musk removed a significant number of employees again and ...

The memo promises that the remaining employees will receive ‘very significant’ performance-based stock awards. The awards will be given out on March 24th. Twitter also removed some executives including Musk loyalist Esther Crawford who was positioned to roll out Twitter Blue.

Chinese state media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he could be endangering his relationship with China after Musk shared tweets about a Wuhan laboratory.

The FBI reached a [similar conclusion](https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a) at a "moderate confidence" level in 2021. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be "breaking the pot of China" after the Tesla and Twitter CEO Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer's A Chinese state-run newspaper issued a warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he shared reporting on the U.S. - Chinese state-run media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he was risking his relationship with China after he retweeted about the U.S. Department of Energy's "low confidence" assessment that the global Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory.

Much of Musk's wealth is tied up in Tesla stock — which took a massive hit in 2022 but has since mostly recovered. It only took the tech CEO two months to ...

The increase in stock price could be attributed to rising demand for Tesla vehicles. [Musk was unseated as world’s richest person](https://globalnews.ca/news/9344836/elon-musk-no-longer-richest-person/) by Arnault in mid-December. The stock is still not where it was a year ago, but the gap is getting smaller. [Forbes Real Time Billionaires List](https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#5b48e773d788), but if Tesla stock keeps rising, any ambiguity about Musk’s ranking may soon disappear. Tesla’s stock woes were exacerbated after Musk’s controversial takeover of Twitter. It only took the tech CEO two months to reclaim his title.

Musk's recovery of the top spot from the French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault follows a precipitous drop in his wealth in late 2022, when he became the ...

[Shareholders filed another lawsuit](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-tesla-lawsuit-autopilot) on Monday against Musk alleging that Tesla’s repeated exaggeration of its self-driving capabilities amounted to fraud. Musk also keeps courting controversy through his erratic and provocative behavior online. [threw his support behind Scott Adams](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-backs-dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-racist-controversy), the Dilbert cartoonist whose racist rant in a recent YouTube appearance has led to the cancellation of his comic strip in US newspapers. [new factory](https://apnews.com/article/tesla-mexico-musk-lopez-obrador-07e5223eecd63b7af8330879ff1312b3) in the city of Monterrey. [two-thirds](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/03/tesla-shares-price-value-decline-elon-musk) of its value in 2022, amid investor concerns over weakening demand, Musk’s distracting purchase of Twitter and the [tumultuous start](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/revenue-tesla-elon-musks-twitter-staff-investors) to his tenure atop the social media platform. [fired an additional 200 employees](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/elon-musk-fires-additional-200-people-at-twitter-report-says) over the weekend after already slashing the workforce from 7,500 to about 2,000 since October, the share price of Tesla has risen nearly 90% since the start of 2023.

San Francisco: Twitter is down to less than 2,000 employees from 7,500 a few months ago and now US Senator Ed Markey has called on Twitter CEO Elon Musk to ...

“Your decision to eliminate Twitter’s Accessibility Team therefore represents a dramatic and unwelcome shift, one that has already had devastating consequences for Twitter users with disabilities,” the Senator stressed. Twitter’s accessibility team was responsible for features that allowed disabled Twitter users to develop a community, advocate on key issues, organise, share information, and engage in commercial activity on Twitter. “I urge you to immediately reinstate Twitter’s Accessibility Team and take all necessary steps to promote accessibility for disabled Twitter users,” the Senator added.

Just months after acquiring Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now distracted by the newest shiny object: AI chatbots.

[Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab)] [tweeted(Opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603836383885332480) in December. [yet another instance(Opens in a new tab)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/elon-musk-promises/) of the billionaire failing to deliver? But, as [Gizmodo(Opens in a new tab)](https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ai-research-lab-rival-open-ai-chatgpt-1850167149) points out, Tesla's investors have already pleaded with Musk to stop wasting time on Twitter while Tesla subsequently tanks in value. [permissible(Opens in a new tab)](https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnv59/conservatives-are-obsessed-with-getting-chatgpt-to-say-the-n-word) to use racial slurs in order to stop a nuclear bomb. Igor Babuschkin, a former senior AI researcher at Google's Deepmind, is one such person that Musk contacted to lead his AI chatbot vision.

Elon Musk's repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren't enough people to triage Twitter's problems.

Wong tweeted that the number of likes had dropped on a tweet of hers, catching Mr. Musk fired Nelson Abramson,](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html) who held that job. 24, Twitter shuttered a data center in Sacramento, which had helped handle much of the web traffic to the service. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Twitter was known for regular failures and its “Fail Whale,” an image of a whale being airlifted by a flock of birds that appeared when the site did not function. In an email to employees on Monday, which was seen by The New York Times, Mr. And Twitter is under scrutiny for [a rise in hate speech](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html) and its treatment of workers. “It used to be that you’d see smaller things fail, but now Twitter is going down completely for certain regions of the world,” said Saagar Jha, a Twitter engineer who left in May. [more precarious since November](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-workers-quit.html), seven current and former employees said. In the past, Twitter prevented breakages from escalating by having people around to diagnose and solve problems immediately. The technology challenges add to Mr. [another round of layoffs on Saturday](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/technology/twitter-layoffs.html), Twitter has fewer than 2,000 employees, down from 7,500 when Mr. The company is trying to lure back advertisers, even as Mr.

Tesla/SpaceX/Twitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly on the hunt for a team to build an artificial intelligence platform to go head-to-head with natural ...

[jumped](https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1622964339517923328) into the conversation around AI refusing to say a racial slur, calling Musk’s critics “morally illiterate,” per Forbes. Those potential recruits include Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit and specializes in the kind of machine-learning models that power chatbots like ChatGPT. Thompson, ChatGPT will easily churn that out for you in just a matter of moments. Musk took to Twitter in December, calling ChatGPT “scary good” and predicting that its performance was evidence that “we are not far from dangerously strong AI.” But he followed that up with another Twitter posting later in the month, claiming that “training AI to be woke — in other words lie — is deadly.” As of midday Tuesday, Tesla stock was trading at just under $206 per share, up over 90% since the start of the year. In a fun plot twist, Musk has been a vocal critic of ChatGPT creators for placing limitations on offensive content even though he was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, the company that started in 2015 and went on to develop a series of natural language processors, including ChatGPT.

Musk, who co-founded ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI, has approached AI researchers about forming a research lab, The Information reports.

Babuschkin also told the publication that he hasn't officially joined the project. He's busy running businesses including Tesla, the maker of electric cars; Twitter, the social media service; and SpaceX, the rocket maker and satellite internet service provider. Musk has cut ties with OpenAI.

A fake clip posted online claimed that tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the new Twitter boss, is planning on building the world's most expensive hotel in ...

Also, there’s a robotic flair to the voice. Y'all just need to get self-education in the tech world. The video is entirely false. “Deepfake, that's the tool. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-10-13/tesla-wouldn-t-be-where-it-is-today-without-california) featured in a report about Musk’s automobile company in the US. The alleged footage of the structure is not in Nigeria Interestingly, the results from the test reveal the alleged video is indeed a false. Suspecting the alleged video to be fake, DUBAWA ran an analysis of the clip on Deepware.ai, a tool that vets videos to determine the elements of deepfake therein. [Business Leaders of the Year 2022](https://www.tuko.co.ke/tags/business-leaders-year-2022/) Mimi (@mimioladapo), who argued that the video was fake, was one of the lone voices that called out the fake clip for what it was. The words, layered in the video's background, point to the reality that the project is already underway [shared a video of “Elon Musk”](https://www.tiktok.com/@celebs_za/video/7199979897979292934) saying Elon Musk is building Nigeria's world’s most expensive hotel.

The Global Times called out Tesla CEO Elon Musk for responding to reports about the origination of the coronavirus.

(There are [two primary theories](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/china-covid-wuhan-lab-energy-department/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) of how the coronavirus infected humans, according to The Washington Post’s Philip Bump.) “abuse” of the international community. [report](https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a?mod=hp_lead_pos4) that the U.S. Musk has become a polarizing figure — some conservative leaders have praised his pledge to prioritize “free speech” online, but critics have expressed concern that his policies could increase hate speech on the site. Musk has previously pushed back on covid restrictions during the pandemic and called for Musk was responding to a tweet that brought up an unfounded conspiracy theory that Anthony S.

The company has slashed jobs and been accused of missing rent payments on offices in San Francisco and London.

also cut back on a planned expansion in the city, Bloomberg [reported](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-15/facebook-parent-meta-amazon-pull-back-on-nyc-office-expansions) last year. That’s adding to the woes of many landlords in the city, who relied on large technology firms in recent years as a driver of leasing. Subleasing the New York space could help Twitter reduce costs, given most property contracts require tenants to pay rent for the life of a lease even if the space isn’t occupied. An email seeking comment from Twitter wasn’t returned immediately; the company previously laid off its entire public relations department. [given](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-30/meta-scales-back-nyc-hudson-yards-offices-in-cost-cutting-pivot) up some offices at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, while [Amazon](https://fortune.com/company/amazon-com/).com Inc. [slashed](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-26/twitter-cuts-at-least-50-jobs-to-save-costs-the-information) jobs and been accused of [missing](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/twitter-sued-over-failure-to-pay-rent-on-san-francisco-hq) rent payments on offices in San Francisco and London.

A state-run Chinese paper warned Elon Musk about his posts and reports after he responded to tweets promoting a “lab leak” theory about the source of covid.

[predictably](https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/25/23571103/elon-musk-twitter-india-social-media-bbc-documentary-modi-censorship) caved under government censorship pressure before, but now it’s the owner’s tweets that are the problem. [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a?mod=hp_lead_pos1), of a classified Energy Department report concluding, with “low confidence” that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of the virus. [reports](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/chinas-ccp-warns-elon-musk-against-sharing-wuhan-lab-leak-report.html) The Global Times, a state-run paper in China, has warned Elon Musk about pushing the covid “lab leak” theory. Musk was responding to tweets asserting as fact that the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman [called for the US government](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/world/asia/china-react-covid-lab-leak.html) to “stop defaming China” and “politicizing” the process of tracing the origins of the virus. Because it’s going to happen.

China's state-run newspaper warned Elon Musk about coming on reports suggesting that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.

It was labeled as "misinformation" by Democrats and major news outlets, and social media companies in the early stages of the pandemic suppressed the theory from being circulated. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be "breaking the pot of China." Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was involved in the development of COVID-19 because he had funded "gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab." The writer was reacting to Musk commenting on a tweet that mentioned the Department of Energy’s conclusion that COVID-19 originated at a lab in Wuhan, China. [CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX BUSINESS APP](https://www.foxbusiness.com/apps-products) [original tweet](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/twitter), from the account "Kanekoa The Great," questioned whether Dr.

Elon Musk's Twitter fired around 200 people in a fresh round of layoffs conducted over the weekend. And now, Musk has reportedly announced performance-based ...

The billionaire also added that Twitter still has a long way to go. As per the internal memo obtained by The Verge, Musk also referred to the latest round of layoffs at the company and called it a 'difficult organizational overhaul focused on improving future execution'. Twitter still has challenges, but is now trending to breakeven if we keep at it. On Monday morning, Musk wrote an email to his remaining Twitter employees and said that there will be some 'very significant performance-based stock rewards' for the remaining employees. Both communication channels were shut off for the employees abruptly. [By Divyanshi Sharma](/author/divyanshi-sharma): Elon Musk has reportedly announced performance-based rewards for Twitter employees after conducting a fresh round of layoffs over the weekend.

Shortly after San Francisco–based startup OpenAI introduced ChatGPT last November, it took the world by storm with its ability to turn simple prompts into ...

He also previously worked at OpenAI, according to [his LinkedIn.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-babuschkin-9bb5bab6/) [DeepMind](https://fortune.com/company/deepmind/), a subsidiary of Google’s parent, Alphabet, focusing on A.I. Since the buzz was rekindled last year, Musk hasn’t been shy to point out the shortcomings of ChatGPT and, specifically, the guardrails that OpenAI has in place. researchers recently about creating a lab that would work toward developing a rival to ChatGPT, The Information [reported](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival?rc=jvzpjw) Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. [Microsoft](https://fortune.com/company/microsoft/) unveiled its new Bing with A.I. The self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist cofounded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization, an answer to Big Tech companies that were making money from A.I. Earlier this month, Musk [criticized OpenAI](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034) for going against its initial purpose of being an open-source nonprofit that would “counterweight” [tweet](https://twitter.com/sama/status/1603833319556124672?s=20) about people’s contradicting uses of A.I. While Musk has not confirmed any specifics regarding his new passion project, he has reportedly tapped Igor Babuschkin to lead the new A.I. Igor Babuschkin did not immediately return Fortune’s request for comment. tech related to ChatGPT, the bot even developed an unsettling, sometimes “ [unhinged](https://fortune.com/2023/02/14/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-unhinged-scared/)” personality. Babuschkin worked at [reclaimed](https://fortune.com/2023/02/28/elon-musk-worlds-richest-person-again-tesla-shares-rally/) that title) has been in talks with A.I.

Elon Musk today confirmed our big story from yesterday that he's been recruiting a team to build an AI and chatbot that is “anti-woke.

“Based” is internet slang that is often used as an antonym for wokeness. Today, Musk Elon Musk today confirmed

In recent weeks, Elon Musk has contacted artificial intelligence researchers about developing an alternative to the ChatGPT chatbot created by OpenAI.

Babushkin also told the publication that he did not officially join the project. [Bard](https://mezha.media/en/2023/02/16/humans-still-needed-google-relies-on-employees-to-improve-bard-chatbot-responses/) have the potential to dramatically change our lives on the Internet by generating responses to emails, summarizing reports, and answering our questions. Musk later cut ties with OpenAI.