Well, that didn't age well. More Musk lies. He was just trying to buy some time. Maybe he has terminal cancer and wants to spend all his money before he dies?
Elon Musk founds new artificial intelligence company called X.AI
Musk has been publicly skeptical of the future of artificial intelligence in the past and has even called for a complete AI development pause, citing “risks to society” he says the technology poses.
“Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control,” a group of tech experts including Musk said in an open letter calling for the development pause last month.
“In the sense that it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,” he said.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3952116-elon-musk-founds-new-artificial-intelligence-company-called-x-ai/
It does seem like that's his goal.