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Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: xAI rented Colossus 1 compute cluster to Anthropic
“You just rented your AI warehouse Colossus One to Anthropic.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 40:43 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
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Horowitz: Sam Altman is attempting to broker Pentagon-Anthropic peace deal
“Some of the other frontier AI labs like XAI and OpenAI are already now willing to work on the classified side, and you know, Sam Altman is attempting to broker a piece, essentially, and create a deal that perhaps Anthropik could join as well.”
Michael Horowitz Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 38:11 Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz
Prediction Held up
Siegler: xAI and SpaceX merger sounds likely and may be announced this week
“If they really do merge with SpaceX, which it does sound like now, is gonna happen, and may even be announced this week, which is insane how fast that that came together, if it comes together in that way.”
M.G. Siegler Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 41:57 The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Grok 4 beats all models on ARC-AGI by significant margin
“And then of course in the Arc AGI test, it outperforms Every model by a significant margin.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 12:50 OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
Assertion Supported
Hanna says xAI uses methane generators to power its Memphis supercomputer
“I would also say that speaking about existing effects, there's also a lot of reporting coming out of Memphis right now, especially around the methane generators that XAI has been using to power a particular supercomputer there called Colossus there, and specif…”
Alex Hanna May 14, 2025 ▶ 5:54 AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking
Assertion Supported
Grok's system prompt suffered an unauthorized change on May 14, xAI says
“It was on May 14th at approximately 3:15 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response. Bots prompt on X.”
Ranjan Roy May 19, 2025 ▶ 14:30 Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
Assertion Partly supported
Kantrowitz: SpaceX's xAI acquisition valued SpaceX at $1.25 trillion in February
“The company's acquisitions of Musk's XAI company valued SpaceX at 1.25 trillion in February.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 6, 2026 ▶ 31:02 OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: X data is definitely being used to train xAI models
“All your X data was going to be used to train these models anyway, and now it definitely is, and there's no getting away from it.”
Alex Kantrowitz Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 56:11 OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
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