Meta’s Yann LeCun Criticizes Musk’s xAI Hiring on X

Meta’s AI chief, Yann LeCun, openly mocked Elon Musk on Musk’s social media platform, X, in a recent online exchange

According to India Today, Musk’s audacious invitation to AI experts to join his $24 billion venture, xAI, catalyzed this development.

Elon Musk has recently issued a recruitment appeal via his social media platform, urging professionals in the technology sector to become members of xAI.

He emphasized the organization’s goal of “understanding the universe” through an unwavering search for the truth, independent of political or popular opinion.

Musk’s post reportedly elicited the following sarcastic reply from LeCun:

“If you can tolerate a leader who insists that your project be completed by next year (no pressure);” “Join xAI.” declares that your activity is potentially lethal and must be halted or paused (yay, a six-month vacation!). “While claiming to adhere to the utmost rigor in seeking the truth, he disseminates ludicrous conspiracy theories on his social media platform.”

Musk made audacious prognostications in April, predicting the advent of artificial general intelligence the following year. LeCun cited these predictions, which Musk reaffirmed last week.

According to The Information, Musk intends to build a sizable supercomputer known as the “gigafactory of computing” to support his artificial intelligence project, xAI.

By the autumn of 2025, the technology behemoth plans to activate this supercomputer, which is comprised of one hundred thousand Nvidia processors.

During a recent investor presentation, he emphasized his commitment to guaranteeing the project’s timely completion.

According to the report, the supercomputer will reportedly be “at least four times the size of the largest GPU clusters currently in operation,” which includes those that Meta uses to train AI models.

The current task of Grok, an xAI chatbot, is to retrieve current information from X, Musk’s owned social media platform, formerly Twitter.