At the end of February, Musk addressed the AI researchers with a proposal to create generative AI on Twitter*to compete with Openai Chatgpt. It is worth noting that Musk became the co -founder of Openai in 2015, but left the company after internal disagreements in 2018. About this reported publication of Business Inter, citing people who are familiar With the company.
The new project of Ilon Mask is known little. Only the fact that this is a large language model underlying Chatgpt. Twitter can potentially use its huge user tweet library to teach a model to output in a natural language.
For its project, Mask purchased about 10,000 video cards. The investment of the entrepreneur in graphic processors is estimated at tens of millions of dollars. GPU blocks will probably be placed in one of the two Twitter data centers in Atlanta.
possible use of generative AI in social networks may include improving the search or creating new advertising methods. In addition, the purchase of graphic processors shows that mask is committed to the development of AI inside the company.
It is noteworthy that Elon Musk made such a decision after he and more than a thousand famous personalities and specialists, including Steve Vozniak, signed an open letter calling for all laboratories of artificial intelligence to suspend the training of more powerful AI systems than GPT- 4.
*Social network is prohibited in the Russian Federation.