According to a new report in the Financial Times, Elon Musk is pushing an ambitious plan to launch a startup to rival ChatGPT. The article cites unnamed people who are “familiar with the tech entrepreneur’s plans.” It also notes that Musk himself recently sounded the alarm about the tech trends ChatGPT represents.
Besides many other ventures, Musk co-founded the lab OpenAI, where ChatGPT and GPT-4 originated.
The news comes just days after a Business Insider report disclosed Elon Musk had purchased 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs). Their function is to help develop and build Large Language Models that can compose text similar to what humans write.
The Financial Times report states that Musk has approached Tesla and SpaceX investors about potential investments in the AI startup.
The AI venture Musk envisions will, naturally, require different expertise from his driverless vehicle firm or his space program. The same…
