What Elon Musk’s AI Startup Means for His Social-Media Company X

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman last Thursday. Musk, who helped found OpenAI in 2015, alleges in the suit that the company broke its founding agreement by prioritizing profit over the benefits to humanity. Meanwhile, Musk launched his own artificial intelligence startup last year called xAI, which also overlaps heavily with his social-media company X, sharing technology, data and financial backers. WSJ reporter Alexa Corse tells host Alex Ossola what the relationship between xAI and X means for Musk’s AI ambitions and the future of both companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, March 4th. I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.2	Coming up on today's show, from music to Tik-Toc to TV shows, there's enough entertainment out there to keep your
0:44.9	brain always engaged. But is that necessarily a good thing? We'll hear from W.S.J. Personal tech
0:51.1	reporter Cordelia James about when and how to give your brain a break.
0:56.2	And then last year, Elon Musk launched an artificial intelligence company called X-AI.
1:01.9	Now X-A-I is increasingly intertwined with his social media company X.
1:06.8	We'll find out what that relationship means for Musk's AI ambitions and the future of both companies,
1:12.3	from W.S.J reporter Alexa Course.
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