Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence (AI) startup xAI won’t be licensing out its expertise to the carmaker, Musk famous in an X publish on Sunday. His publish refuted a Wall Avenue 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 acquainted with 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.
Underneath the association, xAI would additionally assist Tesla develop different options, together with a Siri-like voice assistant, the article famous.
Based on 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
Based on Musk, Tesla executives have gained essential information from xAI engineers that has helped them develop FSD and propel the corporate towards making vehicles absolutely autonomous. Nevertheless, “there is no such thing as a must license something from xAI,” he famous.
He added:
“The xAI fashions are gigantic, containing, in compressed kind, most of human information, and couldn’t presumably run on the Tesla automobile inference laptop, 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 must compress and translate movies of roads and actual world into driving instructions in real-time. On the similar time, they must be sufficiently small to run on a a lot smaller laptop 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 turn into a major contender within the discipline. Earlier this month, the xAI group introduced its Colossus 100,000 H100 coaching cluster on-line. Over the subsequent few months, it’s anticipated to double in dimension.
