Elon Musk says Tesla ‘doesn’t have to’ license xAI models

Elon Musk has denied reports that considered one of his corporations, Tesla, is in talks to share revenue with one other company, xAI, in order that it might use the startup’s artificial intelligence models.

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal wrote: that under a proposed deal described to investors, Tesla will use xAI models in its driver-assistance software (referred to as Full Self-Driving, or FSD). The AI ​​startup will even help develop features just like the voice assistant in Tesla vehicles and software for its humanoid robot Optimus.

Writing on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk said He had not read the WSJ article, but described the report’s summary as “inaccurate.”

“Tesla has learned a lot from discussions with xAI engineers that have helped accelerate the achievement of unsupervised FSD, but there is no need to license anything from xAI,” he wrote. “xAI models are gigantic, contain most human knowledge in a compressed form, and could not run on a Tesla vehicle’s reasoning computer, nor would we want them to.”

Musk founded xAI as a competitor to OpenAI (which he co-founded but ultimately left). TechCrunch reported earlier this yr that as a part of xAI’s $6 billion funding round, the startup presented a vision by which its models could be trained on data from Musk’s various corporations (Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X), and its models could then improve technology at those corporations.

Tesla shareholders sued Musk over the choice to launch xAI, arguing that Musk transferred talent and resources from Tesla to an organization that is definitely a competitor.