Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence (AI) startup xAI won’t be licensing out its know-how to the carmaker, Musk famous in an X put up on Sunday. His put up refuted a Wall Road Journal article revealed on Sept. 7, which claimed that the 2 corporations owned by Musk had chalked out a deal.
WSJ’s claims
Citing nameless sources conversant in the matter, the WSJ article claimed that Tesla would use AI fashions developed by xAI to energy its driver help software program, Full Self-Driving (FSD). As a part of the deal, xAI could be entitled to part of Tesla’s income.
Below the association, xAI would additionally assist Tesla develop different options, together with a Siri-like voice assistant, the article famous.
In keeping with the article, Tesla and xAI executives have agreed to evenly cut up income generated from FSD, which prices customers USD 99 per 30 days.
Musk’s denial
In keeping with Musk, Tesla executives have gained essential data from xAI engineers that has helped them develop FSD and propel the corporate towards making vehicles absolutely autonomous. Nonetheless, “there isn’t a must license something from xAI,” he famous.
He added:
“The xAI fashions are gigantic, containing, in compressed kind, most of human data, and couldn’t probably run on the Tesla car inference pc, nor would we wish them to.”
Musk stated that the Tesla AI fashions are “extremely “dense” (in a great way lol) intelligence.” It is because the AI fashions should compress and translate movies of roads and actual world into driving instructions in real-time. On the similar time, they should be sufficiently small to run on a a lot smaller pc with dimension and bandwidth restrictions.
Musk added:
“Tesla real-world AI additionally has a vastly bigger context dimension than an LLM, because the mixed video historical past from all cameras is a number of gigabytes in dimension.”
Musk based xAI in July 2023. Though comparatively new, Musk believes the corporate has the potential to grow to be a major contender within the subject. Earlier this month, the xAI workforce introduced its Colossus 100,000 H100 coaching cluster on-line. Over the following few months, it’s anticipated to double in dimension.
