In February, Musk publicly disowned OpenAI, the company he helped found, after it received its latest multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft. Musk has since launched xAI with a team of engineers from some of his biggest rivals, including Microsoft and Google. The goal of xAI is to create an AGI, or artificial general intelligence, that can understand the universe. Musk and Sam Altman, the fired CEO of OpenAI, were racing against each other to build a “superintelligent” AI that’s smarter than humans but still aligns with human interest. Musk has recruited Dan Hendrycks, director of the nonprofit Center for AI Safety, to advise the startup. Of Musk’s stable of advisors and lieutenants, only Jared Birchall, the former Morgan Stanley banker, is closely involved with xAI. So far. Like everything else Musk touches, that will likely change. Here's who we know is on the current xAI org chart.
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