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Re:X.ai: $6B Series B by ETH_start on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:09AM (#40488081)
This is a peculiar company mission so not sure why you find it odd to make the official one of xAI.

The all-encompassing nature of it seems befitting a company producing increasingly general-purpose AI.

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Re:X.ai: $6B Series B by stonogo on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:24AM (#40488167)
Sure it does. The problem is that they're not producing any general-purpose AI.
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Re:X.ai: $6B Series B by ETH_start on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:38AM (#40488255)
Whether you agree that their work constitutes advances toward more general purpose AI, they're in an industry where that is ostensibly the goal, which makes their choice of mission statement appropriate.
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Re:X.ai: $6B Series B by nomel on Monday May 27, 2024 @03:17AM (#40488446)
X.ai was founded March 2023. That’s one year three months. Is general AI a good first goal? I think most uses, outside of LLM, will be very specialized AI, and unrelated to chat.
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