Elon’s going all-in on AI, along with his xAI venture now searching for to compete with Meta, OpenAI, Google and others, by offering related generative AI options and instruments, hosted inside each X itself and the separate Grok AI app.
The following massive factor incoming is xAI’s new picture and video era possibility, which it’s calling “Think about.”
And in accordance with a new splash display within the Grok app, that’s coming very quickly.
As you possibly can see on this screenshot (posted by Jonah Manzano), xAI is now informing Grok customers that they’ll be a part of the waitlist for “the quickest picture and video era expertise.”
I imply, I’m undecided that folks actually wish to quickest software on this entrance essentially, however ideally one of the best software for translating their textual content prompts into precise photographs and video.
Although Elon’s assured on that entrance as properly, posting a 6-second video instance from xAI’s present era mannequin:
Elon’s so assured that folks will like his new “Think about” possibility, that he’s even claimed that X will successfully deliver again Vine in AI kind by way of a coming inflow of AI-generated clips.
Which may very well be attention-grabbing, I suppose, nevertheless it’s not likely the return of Vine a lot as an introduction of one other text-to-video AI software.
Which, functionally, gained’t be new, provided that Google Veo gives the identical, whereas OpenAI, Meta and TikTok are all additionally creating their very own text-to-video fashions.
However nonetheless, Elon’s all the time eager to proclaim his model as one of the best, and the chief of the pack. And proper now no less than, he might have some declare to that, given the quantity of processing energy that xAI has seemingly been capable of activate by way of its Colossus knowledge heart.
In response to Musk, xAI is now working 230k Nvidia H100 GPUs at its numerous amenities, powering the most recent Grok fashions. Nvidia’s chips have grow to be a key element for AI improvement, and the extra you will have, the higher the efficiency of your AI techniques.
For comparability, Meta reportedly has round 350,000 Nvidia H100 chips, although not all can be found for Meta AI processing, whereas OpenAI has round 200k in operation.
So proper now no less than, xAI might certainly have probably the most highly effective AI fashions in operation, although it appears unlikely that this may stay the case, provided that Meta has extra capability, and is creating its personal AI chips to increase its techniques even additional.
Although Musk’s different enterprise, Tesla, has additionally signed a brand new cope with Samsung to develop customized chips, which might finally see Musk working in the direction of his personal variation of the identical.
Although even then, it nonetheless looks as if xAI goes to wrestle to compete within the wider market, contemplating the early mover benefits gained by OpenAI, and the close to limitless capability of Meta.
I had assumed that Musk’s ties with the U.S. authorities, by way of his friendship with President Trump, can be the important thing play on this entrance, with xAI capable of construct customized AI techniques that align with the necessities of U.S. authorities prospects. However then Musk turned on Trump, and Trump has since threatened to chop all authorities contracts with Musk’s corporations.
In order that, seemingly, has burned that bridge. However then once more, xAI did ink a $200 million contract with the Pentagon simply two weeks in the past, which is able to see the corporate present AI instruments to the Protection Division.
So possibly all of the Elon vs Trump stuff is being overblown, and Musk will nonetheless have the ability to capitalize on his involvement with the federal government to be able to profit his corporations.
With out that, nevertheless, I don’t see why corporations can be lining as much as do enterprise with xAI, given its numerous controversies round misinformation, and alignment with Elon’s personal opinions.
But, Elon clearly sees this as a key alternative, and he’s now pushing arduous to make xAI into a much bigger venture, and capitalize on the broader AI hype.
If that works out, then Elon may very well be on one other massive cash winner, which is able to preserve the money flowing into X, Tesla robotics, and extra, as he pushes to guide the subsequent tech stage.
However as with all of Musk’s initiatives, lots has to go proper for this to work out.
The method appears to be working for him to this point, nevertheless it all the time feels prefer it’s barely being held collectively by Elon’s irrational confidence.
You possibly can view extra examples of Think about clips right here.
