Elon Musk says xAI is ready to release its first AI model to a 'select group'

• Elon Musk says xAI is about to release its first AI model.
• He said the model would be available to a "select group" on Saturday.

Elon Musk's xAI is gearing up to release its first AI model.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk announced his company was set to release the model to a "select group" on Saturday.

"In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists," he said of the tech. It's unclear who is part of the "select group" to gain access to the model.

The release is the first from Musk's newly minted AI lab. Officially launched in July after months of speculation, the company has the lofty mission of understanding the "true nature of the universe."

Musk later clarified that the overarching goal of xAI was to build a "good AGI" that is "maximally curious" and "truth-seeking." He said the company would tackle scientific questions and attempt to understand what's "really going on."

Musk has taken issue with OpenAI, a company he cofounded and later separated from, and its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT.

He's repeatedly expressed concerns that the underlying model is biased and overly "woke." Musk has previously claimed to be working on a maximally curious "TruthGPT" to counter such problems.

Musk's new AI is likely to be a direct competitor to AI models including OpenAI's GPT, Google's PaLM 2, and Meta's Llama. Insider previously reported that Musk had been hiring for a large language model-based AI endeavor. Two of these hires, Manuel Kroiss and Igor Babuschkin, were former members of Google's AI research unit DeepMind.

Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.