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Elon Musk (Photo; Space X's youtube screenshot)

JAKARTA - Elon Musk, who recently criticized Artificial Intelligence (AI), was reportedly secretly establishing a new AI company.

According to a state filing in Nevada made last month, Musk's new venture is X.AI Crop. Seen, the tech man is the only company director.

Meanwhile, Musk's director of the family office, Jared Birchall, was chosen as his secretary. X.AI has allowed the sale of 100 million shares for the company, which is privately owned.

News about X.AI Corp. comes just days after Musk changed his Twitter name to X Corp. So far, not much is known about the company or what plans Musk is doing.

However, he reportedly hired two former DeepMind researchers in March. Including scientist Igor Babuschkin, who is believed to lead the new project. Musk is also claimed to have purchased 10,000 GPUs for AI development at one of Twitter's data centers.

Tesla and SpaceX investors are also asked to help into their new venture. According to the Financial Times, XAI will rival ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which is supported by Microsoft until now.

Musk actually helped build OpenAI in 2015 and served as chairman along with Sam Altman, who is the current CEO of OpenAI. Then, he left him in 2018 after experiencing conflict with management.

However, after ChatGPT skyrocketed in popularity, Musk warned that out-of-control development of AI could pose a huge risk to society and humanity.

In fact, he also suggested technology regulation and signed an open letter urging technology leaders to stop its development for six months. This was quoted from The Teleglap and Engadget, Saturday, April 14.