Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) successful San Jose, California, US, connected Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
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Igor Babuschkin, a founding subordinate of Elon Musk's xAI, said Wednesday that he's leaving the artificial quality startup to motorboat his ain task firm.
"Today was my past time astatine xAI, the institution that I helped commencement with Elon Musk successful 2023," Babuschkin wrote connected X, which is owned by xAI. "I inactive retrieve the time I archetypal met Elon, we talked for hours astir AI and what the aboriginal mightiness hold. We some felt that a caller AI institution with a antithetic benignant of ngo was needed. Building AI that advances humanity has been my lifelong dream."
A erstwhile probe technologist for Google's DeepMind and ex-member of OpenAI's method staff, Babuschkin recounted immoderate of xAI's large operational achievements during his tenure, including gathering retired engineering teams astatine the company.
"Through humor sweat and tears, our team's blistering velocity built the Memphis supercluster, and shipped frontier models faster than immoderate institution successful history," helium wrote.
The installation successful Memphis processes information and trains the models that powerfulness xAI's Grok chatbot.
Musk wrote, successful response, "Thanks for helping physique @xAI! We wouldn't beryllium present without you."
Babuschkin said he's starting Babuschkin Ventures to enactment AI information probe and put successful startups successful "AI and agentic systems that beforehand humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe."
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