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Sam Lessin: Elon Musk priced SpaceX to bail out xAI and Twitter investors
“He bailed out his XAI people. He bailed out his Twitter people. He bailed everyone out, right? So Elon gets to be the guy who makes everyone money, and if you're a SpaceX shareholder, you're like, whatever, you kind of got robbed on a few things, but number bi…”
Jessica Lessin: xAI is shaky with model and infrastructure problems
“Things seem pretty shaky over there. They've got infrastructure problems, they've got model problems, and now they're losing people.”
Lessin: The X and xAI merger mimics the AOL Time Warner deal
“It's basically AOL Time Warner. If Time Warner had a shitload of debt and like the upshot is, is like the cheap money right now is for the AI thing.”
Grok marks xAI becoming the third truly competitive foundation AI lab
“I think this is actually the beginning of Grok being the third foundation lab that is truly in the game.”
There is no scenario where Cursor is worth $60 billion
“There's no scenario where Cursor is worth sixty billion dollars.”
Grok Built a Competitive Model for Barely Half of OpenAI's $20B Spend
“Twelve billion has gone into Grok, and OpenAI, you have to sort of discount the Microsoft dollars, because a lot of it's for compute, but an estimated twenty billion. Into open AI. So, you know, almost double what Grok has used to build a very similar, if not …”
Jessica Lessin: Elon Musk's xAI in final talks to pay Oracle $10B
“They're in final stage talks to give Oracle ten billion.”
xAI's GrokBot features the best consumer AI agent design so far
“It's definitely the best design so far by a long shot. Like I have serious respect for the product work and design work done here.”
Lessin: Grok's image generation is vastly superior to all competing models
“And like, I use like Grok for image stuff because candidly, it's just way better. It's like not even close. Like Grok is the only one that's cared about image stuff. So like their image stuff is just way better.”
Morin: Dell was primary builder of xAI's Colossus superclusters
“Dell actually was the primary builder of the Colossus super clusters for XAI.”
Dave Morin: xAI and Meta Models Do Not Perform at the Highest Level
“I mean, just like, I don't think you can say it about XAI or Meta, because both XAI and Meta, despite the fact that their models are not performing at the highest level, they at least produced them, right?”