Grok

includes Grok 3, Grok 4, Grok Build, Grok 5, Grok 4.6, Grok Imagine, Grok 4.3, Grok 4.5, Grok 4.7, Grok 6, Grok Three, Grok 2.5

21 statements across 18 episodes · 12 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Nov 11, 2023 by David Sacks · said 239 times in 72 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (72), Chamath Palihapitiya (52), Gavin Baker (43), David Sacks (30), Elon Musk (15), David Friedberg (15), Brad Gerstner (5), Keith Rabois (2)

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Everything said about Grok, oldest first

Nov 11, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Grok will keep OpenAI and ChatGPT honest about content filters
“Having something like rock around will at a minimum, keep open AI honest and keep, you know, keep chat GPT honest because If it's willing to give you truthful answers about things that you compare to the chat GPT answer, then we're going to know when these lik…”
David Sacks Nov 11, 2023 ▶ 1:43:12 Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
Feb 2, 2024 positive
Opinion
Sacks: Grok's main advantage is exclusive access to Twitter data
“Grok's whole competitive advantage is having exclusive access to Twitter's. Data, which is updated in real time, basically by hundreds of millions of users.”
David Sacks Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 1:12:33 E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
Mar 1, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: Groq's developer waitlist tripled to nearly 10,000 in one week
“By the way, developers, by the way, on Grok just this past week, In the queue, the waitlist tripled. Now there's almost 10,000 developers.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 4:10 E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
Oct 3, 2024
Disclosure
Mark Cuban discloses investment in xAI's Grok with Chamath Palihapitiya
“I invested in Grok, right, with Shamath, right?”
Mark Cuban Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 1:45:03 Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
Jan 20, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Friedberg discloses All-In Podcast hosts are all investors in Grok
“And then we're all investors in Grok”
David Friedberg Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:15:47 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
Jan 25, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lafont: ChatGPT maintains over 80% market share against AI rivals
“It really is a dominant kind of franchise, right? It is maintaining 80% plus market share.”
Thomas Laffont Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:14:17 Trump's First Week: Inauguration Recap, Executive Actions, TikTok, Stargate + Sacks is Back!
Mar 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Meta is about to launch a standalone app competing with ChatGPT
“And Facebook is about to launch a competitor to ChatGPT and Grok, yeah. A standalone app.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 1:29:55 Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
Aug 1, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2028
Palihapitiya: Grok 5 and Grok 6 will not use internet data
“Grok five and for sure grok six will not use common crawl. It will not use the internet.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 50:36 Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
Aug 22, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chamath: Grok updates failed to achieve separation on key benchmarks
“If you look at the last big set of model updates, X of Grok, they didn't really meaningfully improve their separation from the last generation model on the big benchmarks that matter.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 18:56 AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Musk: xAI uses inference compute to correct and refine Grok training data
“We're running a lot of, using a lot of inference compute and reasoning to look at all of the source data, which is really the corpus of human knowledge. And then thinking about each piece of information and then adding modern, adding what's missing and correct…”
Elon Musk Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 26:59 Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding
Oct 31, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Musk: Processing all daily X posts with Grok requires 50k H100s
“Yeah, my guess is it's probably on the order of 50 k h 100, something like that.”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 9:26 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Musk: X to launch AI-curated Following tab powered by Grok
“Now something we're going to be adding is the ability to have a curated following tab, because the problem is, like, if you follow some people and they're maybe a little more prolific than you're, you know, you follow someone and some people are much more, you…”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 7:06 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
Nov 22, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chamath: AI decoding chip market will quickly become highly fragmented
“What we are quickly seeing is that there's going to be a highly fragmented layer of decoding chips that exist in the marketplace. Grok is one. TPU is one. Microsoft has a spin. Amazon has Inferentia. Facebook, I think, is Apparently spinning up their own silic…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 22, 2025 ▶ 36:09 Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
Nov 22, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Google search will grow, while OpenAI will lose market share
“I think the search franchise is going to grow, and that Google is not going to lose to ChatGPT, and I think the big loser in all this is going to be OpenAI, because they started with a hundred percent of the market, and they're only going down, and they're fac…”
Jason Calacanis Nov 22, 2025 ▶ 38:21 Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
Jan 10, 2026
Disclosure
Sacks divested his Grok shares upon joining the government
“I divested my Grok shares as part of joining the government back in like February or March.”
David Sacks Jan 10, 2026 ▶ 38:54 All-In's 2026 Predictions
Jan 25, 2026 bullish
What-if
Lockmiller: Competitors would quickly absorb compute capacity if OpenAI failed
“Imagine, imagine they did go out of business. The reason they'd go out of business is because some other model company, whether it be, you know, Anthropic or Gemini or Grok, like really blew them out of the water. But if that were to happen, the group that mas…”
Chase Lochmiller Jan 25, 2026 ▶ 2:01:42 The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
Mar 6, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Emil Michael: Grok is deployed across classified and unclassified military networks
“Grok's all in. For all lawful use cases across all classified and unclassified networks”
Emil Michael Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 52:10 War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
Mar 23, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Local open-source models deliver about 80% of frontier performance for free
“I have started running Kimmy 2.5 on a Mac studio. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini or Grok, but you can probably do about 80% there for free.”
Jason Calacanis Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 38:54 Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
Jul 18, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Palihapitiya: Input token costs range from $56 to $0.50 per million
“A million tokens on fable is about sacks, 56 bucks. A million from soul is about 26 bucks, which is the same as cloud for eight. A million input tokens from on grok is about a dollar 50. Zucks is about a dollar 50, Elon's about a dollar, and the Chinese models…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 18, 2026 ▶ 48:06 Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
Aug 13, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: AI chip inference efficiency will improve 5x-10x every 12-18 months
“If you look at what Cerebrus and Grok and NVIDIA are up to, they're making inference 10 times, five times, every year, and you're the chip master here, Gavin, but they'll be five to 10 times more efficient every 12 to 18 months.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 55:05 Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
Aug 13, 2026 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baker: Anthropic is losing marginal market share to OpenAI and Grok
“And what's wild to me is that probably on the margin, Anthropic is losing share to OpenAI, to open source, and to Grok, and they're still growing so fast.”
Gavin Baker Aug 13, 2026 ▶ 5:53 Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
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