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will xai exchange its technology for tesla's revenue share? musk: nonsense!

2024-09-09

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cailianshe news, september 9 (editor: xiaoxiang)since musk founded his artificial intelligence company xai, there have been concerns in the industry that the world's richest man may shift more of tesla's resources to the startup. last weekend, american media, led by the wall street journal, broke the news that xai has been discussing a deal - according to which xai will receive a share of tesla's revenue in exchange for tesla's use of its technology and resources. this will be the latest example of the growing ties between the two musk-owned companies.

however, musk bluntly denied the reports on sunday and angrily accused the wall street journal of talking nonsense.

according to the wall street journal, citing so-called people familiar with the matter as the initial revelation, under a proposed arrangement, tesla would license xai's artificial intelligence model to help tesla further develop its fully autonomous driving assistance system called fsd, and tesla would share part of the related revenue with the startup.

xai will also help tesla develop other features, including a smart voice assistant similar to apple's siri that it plans to build into its electric vehicles, and software to support its humanoid robot optimus, the people said.

the terms of any revenue-sharing agreement between xai and tesla would depend in part on how much tesla relies on xai’s technology, the people said. xai executives have discussed taking a share of revenue from tesla’s fsd.