"Today we announce the formation of xAI," reads xAI's landing page. "The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.", includes researchers from DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft, and other AI leaders. It also caveats that the AI outfit is a "separate company from X Corp" — the newer,of the company formerly known as Twitter, Inc. — although it will "work closely with X , Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.
As far as that "mission" of unlocking the secrets of our universe goes, however, there's no further explanation to be found. But that said, there maybe be some extra clues buried — where else — in Twitter replies.the official xAI account's first-ever tweet, to which Musk responded with a similarly freshman-year-philosophy-requirement-level question.. "Once you know the right question to ask, the answer is often the easy part, as my hero, Douglas Adams, would say.
Musk completed the tweet with a screenshot showing that the numbers that make up the venture's launch date, 7-12-23, add up to the