Recently, Tesla founder Elon Musk strongly refuted a media report on social platform X (formerly known as Twitter). The report suggested that Tesla and xAI, Musk's AI company, were considering revenue sharing to allow Tesla to use xAI's AI models.
This news was first disclosed by The Wall Street Journal, mentioning that Tesla plans to leverage xAI's technology to enhance the capabilities of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. Additionally, xAI could also assist Tesla in developing a voice assistant and software for Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus.
However, Musk denied this, stating that he had not read the report but found a user's summary post to be "inaccurate." He emphasized that Tesla did receive some assistance from xAI engineers, accelerating the progress towards unsupervised FSD, but did not need to license anything from xAI. Musk added that xAI's models are extremely large, containing a compressed version of human knowledge, and are fundamentally unexecutable on Tesla's vehicle inference computers, nor does Tesla wish to do so.
It is worth noting that Musk founded xAI to compete with OpenAI, of which he was a co-founder before leaving. Earlier this year, TechCrunch reported that xAI, in its $6 billion fundraising plan, mentioned that the company's models would be trained on data from Musk's companies to enhance the technological capabilities of each company.
Nevertheless, Tesla's shareholders have expressed concerns, filing a lawsuit against Musk, believing he has diverted talent and resources from Tesla to a company that is essentially a competitor.
Key Points:
🌟 Musk denies the report of revenue sharing between Tesla and xAI, calling the information inaccurate.
🚗 The collaboration between Tesla and xAI does not require licensing, as xAI's models cannot run on Tesla vehicles.
📈 Shareholders are dissatisfied with Musk's founding of xAI and have filed a lawsuit against him.