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Feldman: xAI leased GPUs to Anthropic because Grok lacked usage
“They had available capacity because the Grok model wasn't used very much. So they had these GPUs that were sitting around and that's a bad idea. And so they sold a whole block of them or released a whole block of them to Anthropic.”
Rao: xAI's GPU clusters broke rules and are not repeatable
“And the things that have been realized I mean, like the XAI clusters and stuff like that, You know, valiant efforts. No doubt about it. And it's amazing to push through and get it done, but it broke a lot of rules and is doing a lot of stuff very inefficiently…”
Maguire: Physical infrastructure will decide the AI race, favoring Musk
“Elon's the best in the world at atoms, and I think atoms are going to be a decisive factor in the AI race.”
Maguire: xAI will shock people with how quickly it scales
“I just think XAI is gonna shock people with the scale that it gets to quickly.”
Mignano: VCs must back Elon Musk if given the opportunity
“In the case of companies like XAI and Neuralink, it's like, you gotta back Elon Musk if you have the opportunity to.”
Rangwalla: SpaceX reached a $1.25T valuation in xAI transaction
“SpaceX is most recent, you know, when they did the transaction with XAI was 1.25 trillion dollars.”
Mignano: xAI, Anthropic, and Mistral target fundamentally different market segments
“XAI has decidedly taken a very direct step into things like consumer through obviously the X platform and potentially embodied AI and robotics through potential partnerships with companies like Tesla, et cetera, and Optimus and things like that. Whereas Anthro…”
DoD prioritizes adapting commercial AI over building in-house foundation models
“Applied AI is number one. And the reason I call it applied AI is because the big companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, XAI, they're all investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI and AI infrastructure. So all I need to do is take that and adapt it for the departm…”
Miller: Accel Is Investing in Ex-xAI Inference Startup Radix Arc
“We are investing in pure play inference software providers like Ying and the team at Radix Arc that just came out of XAI. They're the inference team there.”
Vance: Musk Left Neuralink at 1 AM for xAI with a 4 AM Meeting
“We were at Neuralink filming something for a movie I'm making, and we were there until Like one in the morning, and then he went straight from there back to XAI. And then I had a friend who had a meeting with him at like four AM, I think.”