Musk co-founded OpenAI with Altman and nine others in 2015, and was the most significant early funder before leaving the board in 2018 after clashing with Altman. The FT’s George Hammond has more on the latest salvo in their feud.

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

The AI startup launched its first stand-alone consumer app, as the company tries to catch up with more established players such as OpenAI and Google in the generative AI race.

Elon Musk says he's worried that "we’ve exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge" for training AIs. The solution: just have the AI make something up. The Latest Tech News, Delivered t

A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the California and Delaware attorneys-general to force OpenAI to auction off a large stake in its business, intensifying a bitter fight with the company’s chief executive Sam Altman.

Elon Musk and his attorneys have asked judges in the states of California and Delaware to cause an auction that would force OpenAI to sell part of itself. Read for more.

Elon Musk has been testing the limits of his political influence ever since Trump was elected, but he may stop short of using the full force of the White House.

Geoffrey Hinton is known for his work developing artificial neural networks, the foundation for AI, and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics in October.

Elon Musk, owner of AI firm xAI, has agreed with other AI experts that the pool of real-world data to train AI models is almost empty. Speaking during a live-streamed discussion with Stagwell Chairman Mark Penn, Musk said, "We've now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge... in AI training. That happened basically last year."

“We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. “That happened basically last year.”

We ran multiple prompts on three popular generative AI chatbots—OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Grok (developed by Elon Musk-led xAI), and Google’s Gemini 2.0. Which Nifty pack did they pick? Here’s a distillation of their responses.