Billionaire Elon Musk is on a mission to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls TruthGPT to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google.

Musk says that Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of training the AI to lie and OpenAI has now become a closed source, for-profit organization closely allied with Microsoft.

Musk also accused Larry Page, co-founder of Google, of not taking AI safety seriously.

“I'm going to start something which I call TruthGPT, or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe. TruthGPT might be the best path to safety that would be unlikely to annihilate humans,” says Musk.

"It's simply starting late. But I will try to create a third option," Musk adds.

According to Musk, OpenAI, Microsoft and Page did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Musk last month registered a firm named X.AI Corp, incorporated in Nevada, according to a state filing. The firm listed Musk as the sole director and Jared Birchall, the managing director of Musk's family office, as a secretary.

The move came even after Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.

Musk also reiterated his warnings about AI during the interview with Carlson, saying AI is more dangerous than, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, according to reports.

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but he stepped down from the company's board in 2018. In 2019, he tweeted that he left OpenAI because he had to focus on Tesla and SpaceX.