Inside Elon Musk’s AI party at OpenAI’s old headquarters
Elon Musk laid out his vision to beat closed, for-profit AI during a recruitment party for xAI held the same day OpenAI was hosting its annual Dev Day across town. Musk had co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman and a group of partners in 2015, but he quit the board three years later due to a potential future conflict with Tesla's focus on AI and disagreements with the OpenAI team. He founded xAI to create a digital superintelligence, assembling a team drawn from his other companies. This article takes a look at what happened at the recruitment party, where Musk called on developers to join the company to help build the intelligence and applications derived from that intelligence.