{"id":169390,"date":"2023-08-10T04:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T09:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-com-flips-from-chatgpt-to-elon-musks-x-ai"},"modified":"2023-08-10T04:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T09:59:13","slug":"ai-com-flips-from-chatgpt-to-elon-musks-x-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-com-flips-from-chatgpt-to-elon-musks-x-ai","title":{"rendered":"AI.com flips from ChatGPT to Elon Musk\u2019s X.ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-com-flips-from-chatgpt-to-elon-musks-x-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a bit of a hubbub in February as it emerged that OpenAI had seemingly purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/AI.com\">AI.com<\/a> in order to redirect it to the ChatGPT web interface. But now erstwhile backer, Twitter haver and X lover Elon Musk appears to have taken the valuable domain off their hands, or else someone has done it for him: AI.com now redirects to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"http:\/\/X.ai\">X.ai<\/a><\/a>, the billionaire\u2019s embryonic machine learning research outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Of course domains are bought and sold every day. But <a href=\"http:\/\/two-letter.com\">two-letter.com<\/a> domains are rare and highly expensive, especially those that form words or familiar abbreviations. When AI.com started redirecting to OpenAI\u2019s site, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/chatgpt-ai-dot-com-domain-name-openai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mashable<\/a> pointed out that the domain could hardly have sold for less than <a href=\"http:\/\/IT.com\">IT.com<\/a>\u2019s $3.8 million the previous year, and likely attained a far higher price given the hype around <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/11\/age-of-ai-everything-you-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> in general.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt OpenAI hoped that the purchase of <a href=\"http:\/\/AI.com\">AI.com<\/a> would turn confused URL bar typers into lifetime users. Or perhaps it intended to eventually move its consumer-facing operations (like ChatGPT\u2019s web client) over to the shorter domain. It seems we\u2019ll never know, because now the domain goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/X.ai\">X.ai<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of a hubbub in February as it emerged that OpenAI had seemingly purchased AI.com in order to redirect it to the ChatGPT web interface. But now erstwhile backer, Twitter haver and X lover Elon Musk appears to have taken the valuable domain off their hands, or else someone has done it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}