Igor Babushkin, one of the founders of Illon Markas at Xai, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in A. After x. Babuschkin led the Xai engineering teams and helped build a startup at one of the leading AI developers in Silicon Valley just a few years after its founding.
“Today was my last day in Xai, the company that helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” Babuschkin wrote in The Post. “I still remember the day I met Elon for the first time, and we talked for hours about artificial intelligence and what the future might have. We felt that a new company of artificial intelligence was needed with a different kind of task.”
Babuschkin Xai leaves the launch of its investment capital, Babuschkin Ventures, which he says will support safety research from artificial intelligence and the beginning of startups that “offer humanity and cancel our world secrets.”
The co -founder of Xai says it was an inspiration for the company’s start after a dinner with Max Tegmark, founder of the Future of Life, in which they discussed how artificial intelligence systems could be safely building to encourage the prosperity of future generations. In his position, Babushkin says his parents immigrated to the United States from Russia to seek a better life for their children.
The departure of Babuschkin comes after a few months of turbulence for Xai, as the company has become involved in many scandals related to AI Chatbot Grok. For example, Grok was found MUSK’s personal opinions When trying to answer controversial questions. In another case, Chatbot continued in xi Anti -Semitic tumor He called herself “mecahitler”. Recently, Xai revealed a new feature in GROK that allowed users to make videos created from artificial intelligence Like naked public figuresLike Taylor Swift.
These scandals sometimes overwhelmed the performance of Xai models, which are state of the art In many criteria compared to the artificial intelligence models from Openai, Google DeepMind and anthropology.
Before participating in the founding of Xai, Babuschkin was part of the Google DeepMind research team that was leading in Alphastar in 2019, a penetration AI system that could defeat the highest players in Video Starcraft. Babuschkin also worked as an Openai researcher in the years before Chatgpt.
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In his position, Babushkin separates some of the challenges he faced and planned to build Xai. It indicates that the veterans of the industry described the goal of XAI by building Memphis, Tennesse SuperCanted in only three months “impossible”.
Xai managed to build super computers from artificial intelligence in record time, however, The advocates of environmental protection warn The temporary invasive turbines that occupy the mass pump emissions to neighboring societies and exacerbate their old health problems.
However, Babuschkin says he is already looking back with a pride in his time in Xai, and “he feels like a proud parent, and he is driving his car away after sending their child to college.”
Babushkin said: “I have learned two invaluable lessons from Elon: #1 Be without fear in rolling your sleeves for drilling personally in technical problems, #2 has a urgent feeling of urgency.”
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