The current conflict between Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, over Artificial Intelligence (AI), may continue as the two billionaires compete to construct generative AI platforms to surpass industry leaders Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google.
Both the parent company of Facebook and Musk, who previously supported OpenAI, are getting ready to launch new services meant to benefit from the surge in artificial intelligence.
The launch of xAI was announced on Wednesday by Musk, the Twitter and Tesla CEO. He asserted that this field of artificial intelligence would aid in humankind’s “understanding of the true nature of the universe.”
The following day, The Financial Times claimed that Zuckerberg’s Meta is ready to provide start-ups and other businesses with a commercial version of their generative AI language model, known as LLaMA. It is currently only available to academics.
Both digital behemoths aim to create companies that can rival OpenAI, whose ChatGPT intelligent language bot has captured the world’s attention this year.
Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI but left Sam Altman’s company in 2018, formed xAI four months ago. He has rapidly ordered thousands of high-power GPU chips from Nvidia to support the project, as previously revealed by Insider.
The company’s main goal in making LLaMA accessible to a larger audience, according to a person “with knowledge of high-level strategy at Meta,” was “to diminish the current dominance of OpenAI,” the Journal reported on Thursday.
The billionaires have been embroiled in an ugly online argument for the past three weeks. It started when Musk said he was “up for a cage match” in response to a Twitter user who complimented Zuckerberg on his improved jiu-jitsu skills.
Musk answered by asking Zuckerberg to “send [him] his location,” which resulted in an altercation. Combat sports expert and insider tech writer Hasan Chowdhury believes Zuckerberg would triumph in the fight.
When Twitter rival Threads, which was eagerly awaited by Meta, launched this week, it quickly gained 100 million users.
The dispute then transitioned to the business world when Meta unveiled its much anticipated Twitter rival Threads last week, which gained 100 million users even faster than ChatGPT.
