Musk denies that Tesla will license xAI’s know-how in alternate for revenue-sharing

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence (AI) startup xAI is not going to be licensing out its know-how to the carmaker, Musk famous in an X post on Sunday. His publish refuted a Wall Avenue Journal article printed on Sept. 7, which claimed that the 2 firms owned by Musk had chalked out a deal.

WSJ’s claims

Citing nameless sources acquainted with the matter, the WSJ article claimed that Tesla would use AI fashions developed by xAI to energy its driver help software program, Full Self-Driving (FSD). As a part of the deal, xAI could be entitled to part of Tesla’s income.

Below the association, xAI would additionally assist Tesla develop different options, together with a Siri-like voice assistant, the article famous.

In accordance with the article, Tesla and xAI executives have agreed to evenly cut up income generated from FSD, which prices customers USD 99 per thirty days.

Musk’s denial

In accordance with Musk, Tesla executives have gained essential data from xAI engineers that has helped them develop FSD and propel the corporate towards making automobiles totally autonomous. Nevertheless, “there isn’t any have to license something from xAI,” he famous.

He added:

“The xAI fashions are gigantic, containing, in compressed type, most of human data, and couldn’t presumably run on the Tesla car inference pc, nor would we would like them to.”

Musk mentioned that the Tesla AI fashions are “extremely “dense” (in a great way lol) intelligence.” It is because the AI fashions should compress and translate movies of roads and actual world into driving instructions in real-time. On the identical time, they should be sufficiently small to run on a a lot smaller pc with dimension and bandwidth restrictions.

Musk added:

“Tesla real-world AI additionally has a vastly bigger context dimension than an LLM, because the mixed video historical past from all cameras is a number of gigabytes in dimension.”

Musk based xAI in July 2023. Though comparatively new, Musk believes the corporate has the potential to develop into a major contender within the subject. Earlier this month, the xAI staff introduced its Colossus 100,000 H100 coaching cluster on-line. Over the subsequent few months, it’s anticipated to double in dimension.