While the xAI leadership team seems like it's mostly a collection of respectable figures in the field, Musk himself is unsurprisingly sending what could politely be called mixed signals in that regard. The xAI website says interested followers will be able to"meet the team and ask us questions" in a Twitter Spaces chat set for July 14.
As for why Musk revealed the company today, three days ahead of the big online showcase, apparently it's for essentially the same reason he insisted on SpaceX launching Starship on April 20 despite the fact that systems weren't fully ready: He thought it would be clever.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.