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据多位消息人士透露，埃隆·马斯克旗下的人工智能初创公司 xAI 正寻求从全球投资者融资 60 亿美元，为其挑战 OpenAI 提供资金。知情人士称，马斯克希望以 200 亿美元的拟议估值为 xAI 筹集多达 60 亿美元的资金，他还瞄准了中东地区的主权财富基金，并已经与日本和韩国的投资者进行了接触。其中一位知情人士说，摩根士丹利目前正在协调此次融资。
xAI 是一家专注于开发通用人工智能 (AGI) 的公司，AGI 是一种能够执行人类可以执行的任何智力任务的人工智能。马斯克认为，AGI 是未来的人工智能发展方向，并希望 xAI 能够成为这一领域的领导者。
OpenAI 是另一家专注于 AGI 开发的公司，由马斯克和其他几位科技巨头于 2015 年创立。OpenAI 在 AGI 领域取得了重大进展，其开发的语言模型 GPT-3 在自然语言处理任务上表现出色，被认为是 AGI 发展的一个里程碑。
马斯克与 OpenAI 创始人之一山姆·阿尔特曼 (Sam Altman) 关系密切，但两人在 AGI 的发展方向上存在分歧。马斯克认为，AGI 应该以开源的方式开发，而阿尔特曼则认为，AGI 应该由一家公司控制，以避免其被滥用。
马斯克离开 OpenAI 后，于 2020 年创立了 xAI。xAI 的目标是开发出比 OpenAI 的 GPT-3 更强大的人工智能模型，并将其应用于各种领域，包括医疗、金融和制造业。
xAI 的融资计划表明，马斯克对 AGI 的发展前景充满信心。如果 xAI 能够成功筹集到 60 亿美元的资金，将成为 AGI 领域最大的投资之一。这笔资金将使 xAI 能够吸引顶尖的人工智能人才，并加速其 AGI 开发进程。
AGI 的发展前景广阔，但也存在着潜在的风险。一些专家担心，AGI 可能会被用来制造大规模杀伤性武器，或被用来操纵选举。因此，在开发 AGI 时，必须对其进行严格的监管，以确保其不会被滥用。
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**Headline: Musk’s AI Startup xAI Looks to Raise $6 Billionto Rival OpenAI**
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is seeking to raise $6 billion from global investors to fund itsefforts to challenge OpenAI, according to people familiar with the matter. Musk is seeking to raise as much as $6 billion for xAI at a proposed valuation of $20 billion, the people said, and has targeted sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and has approached investors in Japan and South Korea. Morgan Stanleyis currently coordinating the fundraising, one of the people said.
xAI is a company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), a type of AI that can perform any intellectual task that a human being can. Musk believes that AGI is the future of AI development and wants xAI to be a leader in the field.
OpenAI is another company focused on developing AGI, founded by Musk and several other tech luminaries in 2015. OpenAI has made significant progress in AGI, with its language model GPT-3 showing impressive performance on natural language processing tasks and being seen as a milestone in AGIdevelopment.
Musk has a close relationship with OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, but the two have clashed over the direction of AGI development. Musk believes that AGI should be developed in an open-source manner, while Altman believes that AGI should be controlled by a single company to prevent its misuse.
Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and founded xAI in 2020. xAI aims to build an AI model that is more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-3 and apply it to a range of fields, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.
xAI’s fundraising plans are a sign of Musk’s confidence in the prospects of AGI. If xAI is successful in raising $6 billion, it would be one of the largest investments ever made in AGI. The funding would allow xAI to attract top AI talent and accelerate its AGI development efforts.
The prospects for AGI are vast, but there are also potential risks. Some experts worry that AGI could be used to create weapons of mass destruction or to manipulate elections. As a result, there is a need for strong regulation of AGI development to ensure that it is not misused.
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