XMail? Elon Musk confirms that X (Twitter) will launch an email service to fight Gmail

2024-02-24 07:10:00

Elon Musk, owner of X (former Twitter), confirmed on Thursday (22) that he will launch his own email service. Responding to the publication of a social network employee, the businessperson revealed that the nova platform “is coming”. Although a launch date has not yet been announced, it is possible that it will be named “XMail”.

The service must be presented with the aim of threatening the dominance of Gmail, a Google service, which has more than 1.5 billion active users. Elon Musk did not reveal possible different functions that he would integrate into XMail, but the platform should contribute to his goal of transforming X into an “app for everything”.

It’s coming

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 23, 2024

Musk aroused the curiosity and interest of hundreds of people after his announcement. Some of your followers criticized Gmailstating that they have “lost confidence” in the data privacy of the Google service, while others believe that there would be a large migration of users from the rival company to the X platform.

The announcement comes amid a series of demonstrations by Elon Musk against Google — especially against the recent mistakes made by its artificial intelligence, Gemini, which came under criticism after several reports that the machine could generate images with serious historical representation flaws. and racial support for diversity.

OX has its own artificial intelligence, Grok, which stands out for having a “sense of humor”. It was prepared with 33 billion parameters, and although there are no precise details regarding its development process, the social network’s policies guarantee the possibility of using users’ public information for AI training.

The expansion of services under the X Corp umbrella. — including the fields of artificial intelligence, finance, communication and other areas — can also act as an attempt to regain the company’s popularity and increase investor interest. It is estimated that, between 2022 and 2024, X will have lost 70% of its market value.

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Although there is no expected launch date for XMail, it is possible that this service will hit the market soon as a new addition to the X ecosystem, which should also receive an internal payments system. Recently, the company added a job search function to the social network to compete with LinkedIn.