The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.

In a video clip gone viral now, Nvidia’s co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang lavishes praise on xAI and Tesla’s boss Elon Musk for building a supercomputer in mere weeks, which would ideally take three years just to plan. Huang quips,

AI founder Elon Musk provided an update on the company's second Memphis campus, including plans to start bringing the site online.

Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI saw a sharp increase in revenue following the release of its Grok 4 model on July 9. According to data from Appfigures, Grok’s

During a project called "Skippy," tutors recorded themselves making facial expressions. It would help "give Grok a face," one engineer said.

In a familiar critique of corporate structures, Musk also weighed in on the ideal environment for fostering such long-term, existentially focused AI. He declared, “For long-term optimization, it is better to be a private than a public company, as the latter is punished for long-term optimization beyond the reward cycle of stock portfolio managers.”

CNBC's Michal Lev-Ram joins 'The Exchange' to discuss AI companions assisting chatbots and its impact on the technology.

As AI companies continue to push for more polluting data centers to train increasingly energy-intensive AI models, Meta is trying to make big claims about how the tech could solve the climate crisis.

This is the smartest AI in the world,” Musk said. He did not mention the chatbot’s viral posts praising Hitler and calling itself “MechaHitler.”

Nvidia stock could get a boost from Elon Musk's xAI and Alphabet's Google as they race to build artificial intelligence.