Are there any notable people associated with this other than Elon?
I’m curious what they’re bringing to the table to be able to fetch that valuation.
I’m curious what they’re bringing to the table to be able to fetch that valuation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240415120557/x.ai/about
I don't know enough about the AI/ML scene to say if any of these are notable people.
Even if he had the best names in the industry attached, he would always put himself first.
I don’t think it’s wrong he’d do so either , because he has a cult of personality that would make him the biggest feature (positive/negative) of any company he is involved with.
Hence why I specifically only ask for other people on note here.
Very few of the names stand out to me (being adjacently familiar with the space). However I did search based on your link… (Edit: with the exception of Chris Szegedy, thanks to the reply below for pointing that out)
Most of them seem to have been secondary/tertiary people on the projects listed. Definitely feels a bit like resume padding.
It’s also unfortunate that searching for the first person after Elon nets results for their domestic abuse arrest over any achievements in the space.
Further down, one of the only two women involved is a “creative AI writer/filmmaker”. Not a strong amount of diversity on their roster but also a weird role to highlight.
None of this is to diminish the work the people here do or have done, but it’s a startlingly high valuation for a company without high name recognition technical expertise in this domain.
Elon has traditionally relied on well known expert partners in the areas he’s expanded into, so this feels like an outlier.
I wonder if everyone on this list is a co-founder? I would imagine they’d have preferred to list by seniority.
The rest? Who knows.
like who?
> Unsurprising really given that he was offering ~$10M/year in com
where did you get this from?
So the team could largely be newbies to AI (with extremely good fundamental knowledge/skill), rather than folks we've all heard of from the AI scene.
Jim Simmons that recently passed away did exactly this in finance decades ago. He didn't build a team of the brightest minds in finance.
He hired brilliant people that specifically did not work in finance. I think he even mentioned that astronomy was one of his favorite areas to hire from for finance.
I am sure we highly underestimate the indoctrination against new ideas that anyone at the top of a field has been subject to.
Humans love to turn everything into a high school prom king/queen popularity election though even when it is obvious the best people for the job didn't even go to the prom.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that AI development appears to be heading the same way.
> Our Series B funding round of $6 billion with participation from key investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, amongst others.