Devendra Chaplot joins SpaceX and xAI to build superintelligence

Indian American AI researcher Devendra Singh Chaplot has joined Elon Musk's xAI and SpaceX. He is working closely with Musk and the team to build what he describes as superintelligence. The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay graduate says he will collaborate intimately with Musk and the rest of the SpaceX and xAI teams on more advanced artificial intelligence systems. The partnership of SpaceX and xAI represents a unique occasion to merge physical and digital intelligence, he says. He noted the high engineering culture and massive resources in the two companies could facilitate breakthroughs in the creation of advanced AI technologies. Together SpaceX and xAI combine physical and digital intelligence under a leader who understands hardware at the deepest level, he posted on X. Add a high-agency culture with frontier-scale resources, and you get the possibility to achieve something truly unique, according to the post. Chaplot expressed excitement to advance the fields he has obsessed over for years, from robotics research to building AI models on the founding teams of Mistral and TML. Both were extraordinary journeys with extraordinary people that shaped how he thinks about building intelligence from the ground up, he wrote. Grateful for everything that brought him here and cannot wait to get started, he added.