Understand the Universe

About xAI

xAI is a new company working on building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery. We are guided by our mission to advance our collective understanding of the universe.

Team

Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. We have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, in particular the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We further introduced innovative techniques and analyses such as Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, μTransfer, and SimCLR. We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.

Elon Musk Elon Musk
Igor Babuschkin Igor Babuschkin
Manuel Kroiss Manuel Kroiss
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu Yuhuai (Tony) Wu
Christian Szegedy Christian Szegedy
Jimmy Ba Jimmy Ba
Toby Pohlen Toby Pohlen
Ross Nordeen Ross Nordeen
Kyle Kosic Kyle Kosic
Greg Yang Greg Yang
Guodong Zhang Guodong Zhang
Zihang Dai Zihang Dai
Xiao Sun Xiao Sun
Fabio Aguilera-Convers Fabio Aguilera-Convers
Ting Chen Ting Chen
Szymon Tworkowski Szymon Tworkowski

Advisory

Our team is advised by Dan Hendrycks who currently serves as the director of the Center for AI Safety.

Relation to X Corp

We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.