xAI

50 statements across 33 episodes · 22 bullish · 6 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2024 by John Coogan · said 357 times in 108 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by John Coogan (109), Jordi Hays (55), Tyler Cosgrove (6), Yacine Mtibaa (4), Shaun Maguire (3), Sam Altman (2), Marc Benioff (2), Marc Andreessen (2)

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Everything said about xAI, oldest first

Oct 14, 2024 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Coogan: xAI made no ESG commitments and burns coal for training
“XAI just didn't make any ESG commitments. So they're just burning coal to just pump energy into this latest training run.”
John Coogan Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 1:52 The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3)
Jan 23, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: Elon Musk will have to out-raise Project Stargate
“I think it's going to be incredibly interesting to see what Elon's reaction is going to be because he's definitely going to have to out raise.”
John Coogan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 31:29 Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
Jan 25, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Hays: Elon Musk's infrastructure track record makes xAI a standout
“The reason to be extra bullish on XAI is that Elon is the only founder mode model, you know, CEO. I don't know if he's actually CEO or, but whatever chairman, at least who has done large scale infrastructure projects over and over and over the factories at Tes…”
Jordi Hays Jan 25, 2025 ▶ 1:12:40 DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Altman: Musk uses lawsuits and takeover bids to slow OpenAI down
“I think he's probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor. It's, you know, he's working hard, and he's raised a lot of money for XAI, and they're trying to compete with us from a technological perspective, from you know, getting the produ…”
Sam Altman Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 0:53 Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Continues (WHO’S WINNING?)
Feb 19, 2025 bullish
Insight
Coogan: Well-funded late entrants like xAI can successfully catch up
“Well, XAI explains why it is absolutely viable to have started late, provided you have the funds catch up quickly.”
John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 12:03 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
Feb 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Coogan: xAI raised $6B in November and owns its GPUs
“XAI raised six billion dollars last November and actually owns its GPUs.”
John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 8:46 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
Feb 19, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Coogan: Musk's AI edge is rapid heavy infrastructure execution
“That's really Elon's like edge here for sure.”
John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 27:18 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
Feb 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Coogan: xAI Used 20,000 GPUs to Train Grok 3
“XAI famously built a 100,000 GPU cluster in Memphis and now has 200,000 GPUs and used 20,000 of them to train Grok III.”
John Coogan Feb 19, 2025 ▶ 3:55 How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
Mar 7, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Maguire: Sequoia backs SpaceX, Boring Company, X, and xAI, not Tesla
“We're not investors in Tesla, just given the timing and that it was public where, you know, major investors in space X invested in boring company, investors in X, investors in XDI.”
Shaun Maguire Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 7:12 "Don't listen to anyone" - Shaun Maguire talks Elon, Robots, Space, and the Mars Mission.
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Rauch: Vercel partnered with xAI to power its open chat template
“And we recently partnered with XAI to power the default model. So you can go to chat.versella.ai and you can basically clone and deploy your own ChatGPT in your own domain name.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 14:48 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
Jul 12, 2025 positive
Opinion
Thompson: xAI Would Be an Incredible Acquisition Target Without X
“I think actually XAI would be an incredible acquisition target for a lot of companies if it wasn't saddled with X.”
Ben Thompson Jul 12, 2025 ▶ 2:26:30 Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
Jul 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hays: xAI launched an NSFW anime mode in Grok
“Grok launched a NSFW anime mode to the app, audio and visual.”
Jordi Hays Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 11:13 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
Jul 19, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hays: Grok companions will be xAI's largest revenue source
“I believe this will be by far the largest revenue line item for XAI within, if it's not already.”
Jordi Hays Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 26:47 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
Jul 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Hays: Musk's brand legitimizes NSFW AI spending for mainstream users
“The unique thing about this launch is that there has never, you know, clearly many people around the world spend money on OnlyFans or other NSFW content, and, but Elon has never created a product for those type of people. And so I think the sort of latent dema…”
Jordi Hays Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 27:41 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
Jul 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Grok signed a contract with the US Department of Defense
“So one was that Grok had signed a contract with the department of defense.”
John Coogan Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 13:52 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Elon Musk Eliminated the Research-Product Distinction at xAI
“Elon, as usual, of course, is provoking this question, is, I'm sure you guys talked about, but, you know, he has now, you know, with NXAI, he's now collapsed, you know, he's eliminated the distinction between research and product”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 6:11 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
Aug 8, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Elon Musk Reconfirmed Plans to Open-Source Older Grok Models
“Elon reconfirmed overnight that he's going to, you know, open source, you know, start open sourcing previous versions of Grok.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 8, 2025 ▶ 17:15 Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Musk eliminated research vs product division at xAI
“Within XAI, he's now collapsed, you know, he's eliminated the distinction between research and product.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 1:11:46 Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
Aug 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Coogan: People disbelieve Grok because they think it is insane
“Yeah, but this is four-D chess, because in general, people don't believe Grok, because they believe it to be insane.”
John Coogan Aug 12, 2025 ▶ 9:39 BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
Aug 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Hays: xAI Announced a $200M Contract with the Department of Defense
“It was only a month ago, Grok or XAI announced a partnership with the Department of Defense, a two hundred million dollar contract, so that's serious.”
Jordi Hays Aug 16, 2025 ▶ 18:36 Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
Sep 6, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Elon Musk's new Tesla pay package could lead to merging xAI.
“Part of setting up this pay package could set up a scenario where XAI gets just merged into Tesla and it becomes a standalone. It just all gets rolled in.”
Jordi Hays Sep 6, 2025 ▶ 1:28:55 Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
Oct 17, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Salesforce utilizes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI
“If you are your Slack user, you need to see the Slack bot that we introduced here, which is built on Anthropic. It's also amazing. So we use open AI. We use Anthropic. We use Gemini. I just did an interview with Sundar, you know, you can see it on YouTube. We …”
Marc Benioff Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 4:41 Marc Benioff on AI Agents' Biggest Problem
Nov 19, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hays: xAI and Nvidia will build a 500-megawatt Saudi data center
“Musk's XAI and NVIDIA to develop a data center in Saudi Arabia. It's a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi. XAI is working with NVIDIA and a Saudi Arabian partner to develop a data center in the kingdom. Musk said Wednesday at an event with the crown prince. The…”
Jordi Hays Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 12:46 Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
Nov 19, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Hays: Musk's xAI likely intends to enter the data center business
“To me, it seems much more likely that, like, they just want to be in the data center business.”
Jordi Hays Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 13:23 Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
Dec 16, 2025
Assertion Supported
xAI shortened equity vesting cliff from 12 to 6 months
“A few months ago, XAI shortened their waiting period known as a vesting cliff from 12 months to six.”
Jordan Higgins Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 16:27 OpenAI ENDS Vesting Cliff
Jan 8, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Hays: xAI's expansion brings training compute to nearly two gigawatts
“And we'll take XAI training compute to almost two gigawatts.”
Jordi Hays Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 7:14 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Jan 8, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Coogan: OpenAI's adult content will likely cause less backlash than Grok
“And then we get this, and it makes whatever erotica is going to come out of OpenAI is probably not going to be as controversial as what's happening with Grok right now, right?”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 2:17 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Jan 8, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Musk says xAI will exceed all combined AI compute in five years
“Elon Musk says that XAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in less than five years.”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 6:21 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Jan 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hays: xAI's enterprise adoption didn't justify a valuation above Anthropic
“These were just rumors, but when you looked at XAI's traction relative to their valuation at the time, they were looking for a greater valuation than anthropic. And yet the enterprise adoption certainly didn't justify it by itself.”
Jordi Hays Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 0:19 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Jan 8, 2026
Assertion Supported
Coogan: xAI's single $20B round exceeds SpaceX's lifetime funding
“So SpaceX has done 31 funding rounds, a lot of those have been secondary transactions, but 31 funding rounds to raise twelve billion. XAI just goes out and raises 20 in one round.”
John Coogan Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 4:54 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Jan 8, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
xAI buys third data center facility named MacroHarder
“XAI has also bought a third building called Macro Harder.”
Jordi Hays Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 7:01 xAI Raises $20B, Anthropic’s $350B Valuation, OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health | Diet TBPN
Jan 24, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Hays: Substack benefits because X is distracted by its xAI integration
“So much of Substack's opportunity right now is just that X is rolled into XAI and is like not operating, you know, as like a pure play standalone company.”
Jordi Hays Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 28:54 China’s acquisition spree, TikTok reaches U.S survival deal, Tech Giants hit by spying | Diet TBPN
Jan 30, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hays: SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of planned IPO
“So, they're in discussions ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, and X social media platform, and the Grok AI chatbot under one roof.”
Jordi Hays Jan 30, 2026 ▶ 21:11 Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
John Coogan Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 28:25 Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
Feb 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: xAI and Anthropic compute leads bet on space data centers by 2028
“Well, there's a bet, right, between basically the head of compute of XAI and the head of compute of Anthropic. And the bet is, what percentage of worldwide data center capacities in space by the end of 28, and the bar is one percent. And so the XAI guy is like…”
Dylan Patel Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 10:21 FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
Feb 11, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Hays: xAI's consumer and enterprise products have fallen behind
“As the consumer products and the enterprise products have kind of fallen behind or failed to, you know, fully catch up.”
Jordi Hays Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 7:06 Elon’s go-to banker leads SpaceX IPO, SaaSination, Bejing’s robot Boom | Diet TBPN
Feb 11, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Hays: Only three original xAI co-founders remain at the company
“This isn't looking good, and it's the original XAI co-founders. There was one, two, three, four, five, Five, six, seven, eight. There's three remaining. Elon plus Manuel and Toby.”
Jordi Hays Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 10:02 Elon’s go-to banker leads SpaceX IPO, SaaSination, Bejing’s robot Boom | Diet TBPN
Feb 19, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Cosgrove: Grok 4.2 executes four distinct agent prompts per query
“They did this kind of interesting thing where there's like, four agents. Every time you actually do a prompt, there's, like, four agents, and the agents specifically have, like, distinct roles, where it, it's almost kind of like you have four instances of the …”
Tyler Cosgrove Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 17:48 The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
Feb 19, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Musk: xAI is pivoting Grok away from academic benchmarks toward engineering
“Elon Musk announced that XAI is moving away from traditional academic benchmarks like humanity's last exam to focus Grok on maximal utility for real world engineering and Software development.”
Jordi Hays Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 16:50 The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
Feb 19, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cosgrove: Only OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI operate at frontier scale
“I mean, especially if you're talking about these big pre-trains, it's really just these four. No one else is really at that scale.”
Tyler Cosgrove Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 5:18 The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN
Feb 26, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Leading AI labs are capturing half of all venture capital
“Venture as a class in a good year will do like four hundred billion, and across OpenAI at a 100,000,000,030 for Anthropic, 20 for XAI, then you have, you know, a bunch of NeoLabs all picking up a billion each. Like, you very quickly get to a few companies Rais…”
John Coogan Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 17:18 Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN
Mar 14, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: xAI Poached Two Senior Leaders From Cursor for Coding
“XAI hired two or two senior leaders from Cursor to catch up on coding.”
John Coogan Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 11:03 Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
Mar 14, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hays: xAI Will Struggle to Catch Up in AI Code Generation
“Feels like really hard to catch up in CodeGen, even if you have some great people from Cursor. Like, it's just so, so, so competitive and there's, I don't see it.”
Jordi Hays Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 11:27 Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hays: xAI will eventually offer cloud services to other companies
“I think I think it will make sense over time for XAI to start offering cloud services to other companies.”
Jordi Hays Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 7:04 SpaceX’s Lunar Mass Driver, OpenAI Hires Meta’s Top Ad Exec, Zuck Builds CEO Agent | Diet TBPN
May 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Igor Babushkin Plans to Raise $1B at $5B Valuation
“So the XAI co-founder I go where Babushkin is planning to raise up to one billion at an up to five billion dollar valuation for a new AI research startup with general catalyst possibly leading.”
John Coogan May 15, 2026 ▶ 20:23 SpaceX IPO Date, ChatGPT x Personal Finance, Sanders & AOC vs. Data Centers | Diet TBPN
Jun 13, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Shotwell: SpaceX and xAI merger owns Earth's largest gigawatt-class compute cluster
“With the merger, the acquisition of XAI, we now, as a group, own the largest coherent gigawatt class compute on the planet, which will help us truth seek and understand the universe.”
Gwynne Shotwell Jun 13, 2026 ▶ 8:54 🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
Jun 15, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Baker: Jensen Huang Says xAI Deploys Data Centers Faster Than Anyone
“And we know from Jensen that they bring on data centers faster than anyone else, per Jensen's words.”
Gavin Baker Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 2:39 Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
Jun 18, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Paul: Anti Fund accessed SpaceX and xAI rounds through Jared Birchall
“Going into SpaceX and XAI, working with Jared Burchill to get into some of those rounds and then, you know, you're liquid very quickly.”
Jake Paul Jun 18, 2026 ▶ 1:59 Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
Jul 3, 2026
Assertion Supported
Coogan: SpaceX developed an AI handset prototype with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips
“SpaceX developed an early prototype of an AI Focused handset. The device is said to be slimmer than the iPhone. Runs proprietary operating system. Uses XAI technology built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset.”
John Coogan Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 19:35 Jersey Mikes's IPO, AI Lab Nationalization, SpaceX AIPhone | Diet TBPN
Sep 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Super Grok Is Ending AI Companions
“It's official hot bot summer is over. Super Grok is saying goodbye to companions.”
John Coogan Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 23:00 Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
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