Elon Musk has recently approached AI researchers about establishing a new lab to create a substitute for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to persons with firsthand knowledge of the project, as reported by the Information on Monday.
Igor Babuschkin, a researcher who just left Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) DeepMind AI unit, has being sought after by Tesla and Twitter CEO Musk, according to the story.
The study comes after ChatGPT, an OpenAI text-based chatbot that can create prose, poetry, or even computer code when instructed, attracted a lot of interest in Silicon Valley.
In 2015, Musk and Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI as a charity venture. Musk left the board of directors in 2018, but he still offered his opinion on the chatbot, calling it “scary good.”
According to the story, which quoted Babuschkin in an interview, Musk and Babuschkin have talked about putting together a team to do AI research, but the initiative is still in its early phases and has no clear plan to build any particular goods.
