On Wednesday, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk launched his artificial intelligence startup to challenge OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.

Mr. Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, will lead xAI.

Mr. Musk explained his plan for safer AI in a Wednesday evening Twitter Spaces event.

Musk said xAI would be "maximally curious" about humanity and build a safe system without moral guidelines.

This year, the world's richest person signed a letter urging a halt to large AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. AI development is feared to outpace humans.

Musk said a pause was unrealistic and hoped xAI would offer an alternative.

He also predicted superintelligence, or AI smarter than humans, in five to six years.

In April, Mr. Musk announced TruthGPT, a "maximum truth-seeking AI" that seeks to understand the universe, to compete with Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI.

A state filing shows Mr. Musk registered X.AI Corp in Nevada in March.

Mr. Musk is the sole director and Jared Birchall, the family office's managing director, is a secretary.

xAI's team includes former DeepMind engineers Igor Babuschkin, Tony Wu, Christian Szegedy, and Greg Yang.

Director of the Centre for AI Safety Dan Hendrycks will advise the xAI team on AI risks.

Google announced on Thursday that Bard, which has been launched in the US and UK, would be rolled out across Europe and Brazil with new features like the chatbot speaking its answers back to users and using images when prompted.

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