Elon Musk has denied a report that considered one of his corporations, Tesla, has mentioned sharing income with one other of his corporations, xAI, in order that it may well use the startup’s AI fashions.
The Wall Avenue Journal wrote yesterday that underneath a proposed settlement described to traders, Tesla would use xAI fashions in its driver-assistance software program (referred to as Full Self-Driving or FSD). The AI startup would additionally assist develop options similar to a voice assistant in Tesla automobiles and software program for Tesla’s humanoid robotic Optimus.
Writing on his social media platform X (previously Twitter), Musk mentioned he hadn’t learn the WSJ story, however he described a publish summarizing the report as “not correct.”
“Tesla has realized so much from discussions with engineers at xAI which have helped speed up attaining unsupervised FSD, however there is no such thing as a must license something from xAI,” he wrote. “The xAI fashions are gigantic, containing, in compressed type, most of human data, and couldn’t probably run on the Tesla automobile inference laptop, nor would we wish them to.”
Musk based xAI as a competitor to OpenAI (which he co-founded however ultimately left). TechCrunch reported earlier this yr that as a part of the pitch for xAI’s $6 billion funding spherical, the startup outlined a imaginative and prescient the place its fashions can be educated on knowledge from Musk’s numerous corporations (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Firm, Neuralink, and X), and its fashions may then enhance know-how throughout these corporations.
Tesla shareholders have sued Musk over the choice to start out xAI, arguing that Musk has diverted expertise and assets from Tesla to what’s primarily a competing firm.