Chatbot with humour: Elon Musk set to integrate AI startup xAI with social media platform X

Elon Musk announced on Sunday (Nov5) that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will soon be integrated into his social media platform X, which will also have a chatbot that has a sense of humour. The same integrated product will also be available as a standalone app, he said in a post on X. It will be open to select users as of now.

Joining the AI race, Musk also said xAI released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers on Friday (Nov3).

What is the goal of the startup?

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The goal of the startup is to create AI tools that 'assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge' and that Grok has been designed to answer questions "with a sense of humour."

Musk, who has slammed Big Tech's AI efforts as ridden with censorship, launched xAI in July, calling it a "maximum truth-seeking AI" that seeks to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI.

"Grok has real-time access to information via the X platform, which is a massive advantage over other models," Musk added.

Are X andxAI the same?

X, the social media firm previously called Twitter, which Musk owns, is a separate entity from xAI, but the companies work in tandem. AI is also working closely with his electric car-making company, Tesla.

Just last week, in a discussion with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Musksaid he thought AI was "the most disruptive force in history."

The 50-minute interview ended with Musk saying that technology will make 'paid work redundant.'

He also warned of humanoid robots that "can chase you anywhere".

In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind the large language model-based chatbot ChatGPT, but stepped down from the board in 2018.

(With inputs from agencies)