Elon Musk gathers his team and held talks with a former AI Researcher to develop OpenAI‘s ChatGPT rival. Elon Musk has contacted DeepMind AI researchers in recent weeks about creating a new research lab to develop a competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the announcement reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the effort.
According to the report, Tesla and Twitter chief Musk have been calling up Igor Babuschkin, who is a researcher who recently left Alphabet’s DeepMind AI unit. The following report appears after Open AI’s Chatbot that can draft poetry, or even computer code, achieved across-the-board attention in Silicon Valley.
Musk, who had co-founded OpenAI along with Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman in 2015 a nonprofit startup, had left its board in 2018, but chimed in with his take on the chatbot, calling it “scary good”.
While quoting an interview with the latter, Musk and Babuschkin have concerned to recruit a team to pursue AI research but the project is still in the early stages, with no definite plan to develop specific products
According to report, Babuschkin added that he has not officially signed onto the Musk initiative. Musk and Babuschkin could not be reached immediately for comments.
Since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022, it has exploded in popularity and caused tech giants to jump into the AI race. Several organizations are developing their ChatGPT-style AI chatbot.
China’s Baidu is working on Ernie Bot to rival ChatGPT and revamp its search engine. Earlier this week, Baidu CEO said the company will use its ChatGPT-like app Ernie Bot to create a “revolutionary” version of its popular search engine. Baidu, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence in recent years, is regarded as at the forefront of efforts to create a Chinese rival to the AI platform developed by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft.
