Elon's Universe-Expanding xAI Play 🌌

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As always, we’ve got one daily AI headline, two exciting tools, and three pieces of content we love from the community for you today.

In this edition:

✍️ News: Elon’s xAI Play
🛠️ Tools: Scalenut, Upscale.Media
🎨 Creator Corner: Tech Giant Dance-off, 3D Asset Heaven, Indiana Jones Expansion

Here’s everything you need to know:

One top headline in the AI space to know:

 🚀 Elon Musk Launches xAI

Elon Musk is no stranger to the artificial intelligence world.

The world’s richest man was around for the origins of one of AI’s biggest breakthroughs — helping co-found OpenAI back in 2015. But the polarizing leader left the company in 2018 due to disagreements over AI safety.

And after being a vocal opponent of the current trajectory (including calling for a pause on AI development and signing several letters on the topic), he's venturing back in the AI game with a new company — xAI.

The goal of xAI a lofty one — to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’, according to the company’s site.

While It's still a little unclear what xAI's endgame is and how they plan to commercialize their research, Musk is no stranger to shaking up established markets.

And the Twitter founder is already cross-pollinating between his companies — with more information about xAI reportedly being released on a Twitter Spaces this Friday.

xAI's superstar team includes top talents plucked from AI research labs like DeepMind, Microsoft, and even OpenAI.

A deeper dive into each team member’s background in the artificial intelligence space:

What secrets of the universe do you want xAI to uncover?

Two AI-powered platforms to add to your toolbox:

• Scalenut — An AI co-pilot that powers your entire SEO content lifecycle (link)

• Upscale Media — Upscale and enhance images with AI (link)

Three of our favorite tweets, threads, AI generations and more:

In honor of Elon’s xAI announcement (and the current Twitter vs. Threads battle), here’s a text-to-video AI generation of a danceoff between two tech giants:

AI is unlocking a new era of 3D asset building. Check out Objaverse-XL:

We’ve seen AI expand various photos and memes, but did you know it can do video too? An example, using Indiana Jones:

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