Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, it reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort.
The report states that Musk, who heads Tesla and Twitter, is recruiting Igor Babushkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit.
The report comes after ChatGPT, a text-based chatbot developed by OpenAI that can draft prose, poetry or even computer code on command, attracted widespread attention in Silicon Valley.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman in 2015 as a non-profit startup, left its board in 2018 but called it “scary good” with his idea on chatbots .
Musk and Babushkin have discussed assembling a team to further AI research, but the project is still in its early stages, with no concrete plans to develop specific products, reports an interview with the latter. Quoting said.
Babushkin said the Musk initiative has not been officially signed, according to reports.
Musk and Babushkin could not be immediately reached for comment.
(Reporting by Yana Gaur in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Anirudh Saligram in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)
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