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Feb 27 (Reuters) - Elon Musk has approached AI
researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to
develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Information
reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the
effort.Tesla and Twitter chief Musk has been recruiting Igor
Babuschkin, a researcher who recently left Alphabet's
DeepMind AI unit, the report said.The report comes after ChatGPT, a text-based chatbot
developed by OpenAI that can draft prose, poetry or even
computer code on command, gained widespread attention in Silicon
Valley.Musk, who had co-founded OpenAI along with Silicon Valley
investor Sam Altman in 2015 as a nonprofit startup, had left its
board in 2018, but chimed in with his take on the chatbot,
calling it "scary good".Musk and Babuschkin have discussed assembling a team to
pursue AI research but the project is still in the early stages,
with no concrete plan to develop specific products, the report
said quoting an interview with the latter.Babuschkin added that has not officially signed onto the
Musk initiative, according to the report.Musk and Babuschkin could not be reached immediately for
comments.(Reporting by Yana Gaur in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by
Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)