THIS xAI THAT : MASTER PRECIS

LONG BEFORE Meta started throwing around giant pay packages for A.I. expertise, Mr. Musk attracted many of his researchers with pay packages totaling millions of dollars a year, according to two people familiar with the company's early recruiting efforts who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

When the founding team - 11 employees plus Mr. Musk - met in SpaceX headquarters in Texas in 2023, Mr. Musk said, ChatGPT, which dominated the market, was too ''woke.''

He wanted to build a competitor that was aligned more closely with his own political views.

Mr. Musk raised billions of dollars in funding to build a data center in Tennessee that used 100,000 specialized computer chips from the chip giant Nvidia.

When it opened in 2024, it was one of the world's largest supercomputers for building A.I.

He also ordered the company's leaders to hire 100 engineers in 100 days. The news would roughly double the size of the company's staff, according to two people familiar with the plan.

By February, the company had built the A.I. system that performed on par with other leading chatbox technologies, according to standard A.I. benchmarks.

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