Musk's AI project is at an early stage, according to the people familiar, though one person said the purchase of so much additional computational power showed he's 'committed' to its development. Tech companies typically use GPUs to work on large AI models, given the computational workload the newer technology requires. The Tesla billionaire, who acquired Twitter almost six months ago and has made some drastic changes there, recently purchased roughly 10,000 graphics processing units for the platform, two people familiar with the company said.

Two AI engineers from Alphabet's DeepMind joined Twitter last month.Įlon Musk is said to be moving forward with an artificial-intelligence project within Twitter, despite recently signing an open letter calling for an industrywide halt to any AI training for several months.Musk has criticized ChatGPT, which he has a previous association with as an OpenAI cofounder.CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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