>So, a guy with probably one of the largest incentives in the world to trash xAI is trashing xAI?

He's just stating the obvious, so I really don't see this as contentious.

xAI is irrelevant. It's so irrelevant that after being relegated hardware from Tesla, then pushed into Twitter to try to make that have value, then pushed into SpaceX because Elon Musk somehow gets away with hilarious levels of securities fraud, now it's basically reduced to renting out hardware.

Yes, xAI is irrelevant, and Hoffman is just pointing out the blatantly obvious. Its only value is in renting out hardware that can be better used by more capable orgs. It is basically a scalper that happened to get loads of nvidia hardware pre-orders in just before the AI run-up, and the entire SPCX scam relies upon everyone trying to buy usage of it.

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DoesntMatter22 4 hours ago | parent [-]

XAI is very relevant. They have one of the best video models, they own cursor which has a good percent of the coding market. Anthropic runs thier ai on xai’s data centers.

Saying they aren’t relevant is comical

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mrhottakes 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They're relevant in the sense that all of their products are 100% silly junk compared to the rest of the market, which is about 80% silly junk.

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llm_nerd 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>They have one of the best video models

In porn and deepfakes. Yeah, they should be regulated to obliteration.

>they own cursor which has a good percent of the coding market

They don't own cursor. They announced an acquisition immediately after the insane SPCX valuation to desperately scrabble to lock in some of that laughably nonsensical hype valuation (as the entire US equities market has become firmly detached from reality, and at some point is going to catastrophically crash to reality). It doesn't close for months. And FWIW Cursor is rapidly declining, and anyone still foolishly on it should probably find an offramp now. Before Elon Musk starts fiddling with it and you find your code focused on the genocides of whites in South Africa or something.

I mean, the fact that you had to cite that as their credibility fully demonstrates how completely worthless it is. GPUs that were originally Tesla's (before the whole robo-taxi scam fell apart), then shuffled to Twitter, then to SPCX.

>Anthropic runs thier ai on xai’s data centers

That was literally the foundation of my comment. xAI is so worthless that they get better value become another vanilla rent-a-GPU operation.

xAI is a joke. Somehow Elon's pathetic Matryoshka doll routine keeps suckering fools.

	▲	bckr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Cursor is declining Yep. I switched to Zed over the weekend and I’m very happy so far. It’s snappy.