xAI for Scientific Discovery

September 19, 2024in Salesforce

xAI: Advancing AI for Scientific Discovery

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xAI is dedicated to developing artificial intelligence that accelerates human scientific discovery, driven by a mission to enhance our understanding of the universe.

Led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, the xAI team comprises pioneers who have contributed to key advancements in AI, including the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. Our team has introduced transformative technologies such as Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, μTransfer, and SimCLR. These innovations have played crucial roles in breakthroughs like AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.

Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety, serves as an advisor to xAI. We also collaborate closely with X Corp to bring our AI technologies to over 500 million users of the X app.

Timeline of Key Milestones – xAI for Scientific Discovery

12 July 2023: xAI officially launched with the mission to understand the universe.
18 August 2023: Completion of Grok-0, a 33B parameter dense transformer, marking our first flagship AI model.
3 November 2023: Early-access release of Grok and the Grok-1 conversational AI model, with hundreds of users starting to test it.
6 November 2023: Announcement of the early-access release of PromptIDE, an integrated development environment designed for prompt engineering.
15 November 2023: Release of the Grok API SDK, enabling close partners to integrate and use our technology.
7 December 2023: Grok became available to X Premium+ users, integrating with X’s website and app ecosystem.
17 March 2024: Open-source release of the Grok-1 LLM weights and architecture, making it available to the wider AI community.
28 March 2024: Completion of Grok-1.5, an enhanced version with improved reasoning and coding abilities.
12 April 2024: Introduction of vision capabilities in Grok-1.5V, allowing the model to process both natural language and images.
15 May 2024: Full release of Grok-1.5 to X Premium users worldwide.