Elon Musk makes a promise to employees at townhall
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX will train its AI model, Grok, using internal company data and employee contributions. He framed this as a way to instill human-centric values into the AI while promising employees future opportunities for space travel.
Why it matters
It reflects the growing trend of tech companies utilizing proprietary, high-quality internal data to train advanced AI models as public internet data becomes saturated.
Elon Musk recently told SpaceX employees that the company is now bullish into the artificial intelligence (AI) race and will be utilising a valuable resource for its models’ training: its own workers' data. Musk told staff that the company’s internal information, including direct contributions from employees, will be used to train Grok, the AI developed by Musk’s xAI and absorbed by SpaceX earlier this year. In a report by Business Insider, the tech magnate explained in an all-hands meeting the plan to harness the company's collective knowledge.
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