Tech billionaire Elon Musk has unveiled his latest venture, xAI, featuring a dream team of 12 co-founders recruited from industry giants like DeepMind, OpenAI, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
Leading the charge is Musk himself, alongside advisor Dan Hendrycks from the Center for AI Safety. Let's meet the brilliant minds shaping xAI's future:
- Igor Babuschkin: Formerly at DeepMind and OpenAI, Babuschkin brings invaluable expertise in AI research and development. In April, he was arrested for domestic battery and subsequently released in Northern California.
- Yuhuai (Tony) Wu: With experience at Google and Stanford University, Wu brings deep knowledge in AI and deep learning.
- Kyle Kosic: Former engineer at OpenAI and software engineer at OnScale, Kosic contributes engineering and cloud engineering simulation platform skills.
- Manuel Kroiss: With a background at DeepMind and Google, Kroiss is a software engineering expert for cutting-edge AI solutions.
- Greg Yang: Formerly at Microsoft Research, Yang is pioneering Tensor Programs, a groundbreaking framework for understanding neural networks.
- Zihang Dai: Former research scientist at Google, Dai brings extensive expertise in AI research and development.
- Toby Pohlen: Having spent six years as a research engineer at Google, Pohlen contributes a wealth of experience in AI and machine learning.
- Christian Szegedy: With a remarkable tenure at Google, Szegedy offers a profound understanding of AI and machine learning.
- Guodong Zhang: Former research scientist at DeepMind and Ph.D. holder from the University of Toronto, Zhang brings a wealth of industry and research experience.
- Jimmy Ba: As an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Ba's collaboration with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton adds invaluable insights.
- Ross Nordeen: With expertise in high-performance computing and AI systems from Tesla, Nordeen brings cutting-edge knowledge to xAI.