<p>Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire and Tesla CEO said on Friday.</p>.<p>This comes nearly a year after OpenAI's ChatGPT caught the imagination of businesses and users around the world, spurring a surge in adoption of generative AI technology.</p>.<p>Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in 2015 but stepped down from the company's board in 2018.</p>.Elon Musk asks court to reject SEC's bid to make him testify in Twitter probe.<p>"In some important respects, it (xAI's new model) is the best that currently exists," he posted on his X social media platform.</p>.<p>"As soon as it’s out of early beta, xAI's Grok system will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers," Musk posted.</p>.<p>X, formerly known as Twitter, rolled out two new subscription plans last week, a $16 per month Premium+ tier for users willing to pay for an ad-free experience and a basic tier priced at $3 per month.</p>.<p>The billionaire, who has been critical of Big Tech's AI efforts and what he calls censorship, said earlier this year he would launch a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI.</p>.<p>The team behind xAI, which launched in July, comes from Google's DeepMind, the Windows parent, and other top AI research firms.</p>.<p>Although X and xAI are separate, the companies work closely together. xAI also works with Tesla and other companies.</p>.Elon Musk’s X is worth less than half of price he paid for Twitter.<p>Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and a self-described close friend of Musk, said in September that xAI had signed a contract to train its AI model on Oracle's cloud.</p>
<p>Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire and Tesla CEO said on Friday.</p>.<p>This comes nearly a year after OpenAI's ChatGPT caught the imagination of businesses and users around the world, spurring a surge in adoption of generative AI technology.</p>.<p>Musk co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in 2015 but stepped down from the company's board in 2018.</p>.Elon Musk asks court to reject SEC's bid to make him testify in Twitter probe.<p>"In some important respects, it (xAI's new model) is the best that currently exists," he posted on his X social media platform.</p>.<p>"As soon as it’s out of early beta, xAI's Grok system will be available to all X Premium+ subscribers," Musk posted.</p>.<p>X, formerly known as Twitter, rolled out two new subscription plans last week, a $16 per month Premium+ tier for users willing to pay for an ad-free experience and a basic tier priced at $3 per month.</p>.<p>The billionaire, who has been critical of Big Tech's AI efforts and what he calls censorship, said earlier this year he would launch a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe to rival Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI.</p>.<p>The team behind xAI, which launched in July, comes from Google's DeepMind, the Windows parent, and other top AI research firms.</p>.<p>Although X and xAI are separate, the companies work closely together. xAI also works with Tesla and other companies.</p>.Elon Musk’s X is worth less than half of price he paid for Twitter.<p>Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and a self-described close friend of Musk, said in September that xAI had signed a contract to train its AI model on Oracle's cloud.</p>