Elon Musk’s xAI Recruits Specialists to Train AI Models on Crypto

Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence firm xAI is hiring a crypto specialist to assist prepare its AI programs on digital asset markets.

In accordance with a newly posted job itemizing, the corporate is recruiting a distant “Finance Skilled – Crypto” to assist educate xAI’s fashions how skilled crypto merchants analyze onchain information, consider token economics and handle threat in unstable, always-on markets.

“This consists of producing high-quality information in textual content, voice, and video codecs: detailed annotations, mannequin output critiques, step-by-step reasoning traces, audio explanations of methods, and occasional structured video periods,” the job description reads.

As a part of the function, the crypto skilled would additionally “determine and resolve difficult issues from crypto, together with market microstructure points resembling fragmented liquidity and miner extractable worth (MEV)-related execution dangers.”

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Rising AI–crypto convergence

Commenting on the job posting, Sumit Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Indian crypto alternate CoinDCX, mentioned the function reveals that the longer term lies within the convergence of crypto and AI.

“X is already the #1 place the place CT hangs out. Elon Musk needs to make xAI/ grok the #1 analysis platform for crypto people too?” Gupta mentioned in a put up on X.

The function is absolutely distant and provides hourly compensation starting from $45 to $100, relying on expertise and site.  

In November, Musk mentioned X is getting ready to launch a standalone encrypted messaging app referred to as X Chat throughout the subsequent few months, positioning it as a competitor to Telegram and WhatsApp. Talking on The Joe Rogan Expertise, Musk mentioned the app makes use of peer-to-peer encryption just like Bitcoin (BTC).

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X prepares to roll out “sensible cashtags”

Final month, X’s head of product Nikita Bier revealed that the platform is getting ready to roll out a brand new “Good Cashtags” characteristic that may present real-time worth information for cryptocurrencies and shares, together with associated information and on-platform dialogue.