Despite feuding over the years, Jeff Bezos says he doesn’t have any problems when it comes to being friends with Elon Musk. In fact, Bezos thinks he and the Twitter owner are “very like-minded”. In a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, the Amazon founder said he loves the idea of hanging out with Musk. … Read more
Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI is making its first generative AI-powered chatbot Grok available to users in India. Aside from India, xAI announced that Grok AI will be available in 46 other countries including Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, Canada and Australia, in less than a week after it arrived in the US. ok … Read more
It is no secret that high-profile brands are pulling their paid ad campaigns from Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter). Despite radically overhauling its ad strategy, the company has failed to address advertisers’ concerns, which surfaced after Musk endorsed an antisemitic and hateful post. However, it looks like all is not lost for … Read more
Elon Musk is inviting co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI Ilya Sutskever to join xAI or Tesla. It is worth noting that Sutskever played a vital role in CEO Sam Altman’s ouster. Just 5 days after OpenAI fired Altman, the top executive was reinstated because high-profile OpenAI investors were reportedly exerting pressure on the board. … Read more
Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI has been catching flak for allegedly using OpenAI’s codebase to train its first-ever AI-powered bot called Grok. To those unaware, xAI announced Grok ahead of OpenAI’s first developer conference. It is also worth noting that Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI. The 52-year-old billionaire stepped down from OpenAI’s … Read more
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