🕊 Elon Musk’s AI Party at OpenAI’s Old Headquarters
At a recruiting party for xAI, Musk laid out his vision to beat "closed, for-maximum-profit AI."
🎟 The party had all the makings of a typical recruiting event for a tech startup in San Francisco. There was free food, drinks, and AI-generated music. But there were also mandatory metal detector screenings, ID checks, and security guards everywhere. This was an Elon Musk event.
📍The location was significant: it was the original headquarters of OpenAI, a company Musk co-founded. Now, he has returned to the same space, this time to lure top talent to his latest venture, xAI.
🗓 The timing felt intentional. That same day, OpenAI was hosting its annual Dev Day, where CEO Sam Altman had spoken hours earlier to a packed auditorium of developers. The Silicon Valley rumor mill was buzzing about OpenAI closing in on the largest round of funding ever for a startup, surpassing Musk’s recent raise for xAI just four months ago.
This wasn’t just another evening with free cocktails. It was a statement.
💬 Key Quotes from Elon Musk:
“We want to create a digital superintelligence that is as benign as possible.“
“We’ll reach AGI in a couple of years.“
“My personal belief is that the best way to achieve AI safety is to have a maximum, truth-seeking AI.“
“To join xAI and help build the intelligence and build useful applications to derive from that intelligence.“
“I just don’t trust OpenAI for obvious reasons. It is closed, for-maximum-profit AI.”
Musk predicted that OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI would be the major players in the AI race over the next five years.
Who will win this race? What do you think?
🔥 — Elon Musk
🍓 — OpenAI
😎 — Someone else
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