| ▲ | aurareturn 10 hours ago |
| More signs that xAI might be giving up on the AGI race. xAI let Cursor train a model on Colossus 2, gave the entire Colossus1 to Anthropic, and is now giving compute in Colossus2 to Anthropic as well. |
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| ▲ | tristanj 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Bad read on the situation. xAI has too much compute and not enough customers using it. They have around half a million GPUs, some of which are stolen from Tesla, running at 11% utilization. xAI predicted more people would be using Grok, but Grok is not a SOTA model & users primarily want to use SOTA models. They have excess capacity and it makes sense to rent out GPUs to other customers while they improve their models. |
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| ▲ | kibibu 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Grok is also tuned to align with Musk's personal beliefs. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. | | |
| ▲ | Culonavirus 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | You mean like it's less lobotomized on cultural issues concerning gender, race and such? Big deal. This site is full of left wing nut jobs pretending to be "the normal ones" and I'm sick of it. How about we focus on Grok being garbage as a SOTA model and Musk constantly putting out time estimates pulled out of his ass... and not on this BS? Seriously... sometimes I'm wondering if I'm on BlueSky with the amount of EDS around here. Like there's a significant amount of people here that drop Claude for Codex because Anthropic buys compute from Musk. What the fuck is going on | |
| ▲ | akimbostrawman 9 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Opposed to all other models being the bastion of objectivity? Must be truly vindicating to have to hear other peoles options after decades in the silicon valley bubble. |
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| ▲ | aurareturn 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It is a race that has a flywheel effect. Once xAI training team “fix” their model, where will Anthropic be then? | |
| ▲ | coliveira 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's not stolen if it was taken from Tesla, investors already agreed that Elon can do anything he pleases with their money. | |
| ▲ | CSMastermind an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | More people should try Grok. I don't use it for coding but it's replaced a lot of my ChatGPT usage. Definitely more perferred model for quick questions or easy answers. | | |
| ▲ | giancarlostoro 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | One thing I do like about Grok is that it makes it stupid easy to see what its referencing, and gives you the links to those resources. Which most models sometimes either don't bother, or don't do much of a good job of doing. It's not the top model, but it is definitely high up there, people's blind rage for anything Elon Musk is the only reason most people don't realize how capable it is unfortunately. Grok is not exclusively made by Elon Musk, there's definitely other engineers working day and night on it. | | |
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| ▲ | papascrubs 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Elon lost his lawsuit with openAI and knows xAI isn't on the same trajectory. Might as well try to win the bet and flip off Sam by supporting the best competition. Also they are getting a head start on AI as a commodity. I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made for those that can leverage their capital to essentially rent capacity right now. If he's not making enough off of grok, might as well cover their expenses. |
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| ▲ | paxys 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It was kinda obvious when SpaceX "acquired" it. Elon rewarded xAI investors/prevented lawsuits by giving them SpaceX equity, and that was that. |
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| ▲ | gen220 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| FWIW, SpaceX (parent company of xAI) has an option to acquire Cursor for $60B that expires 7 days after their imminent IPO. |
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| ▲ | derwiki an hour ago | parent [-] | | Do people still use Cursor? My company’s leadership has been clear that Cursor was cool for a hot minute but you Should Not be using it anymore |
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| ▲ | DeathArrow 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| xAI might acquire Cursor. They are in the process of training new coding models and probably a new Grok. Until they finish training, it makes sense to rent the excess capacity. |
