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beams_of_light 4 hours ago

xAI is no David.

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RIMR an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A $2,500,000,000,000.00 startup. An underdog really.

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andsoitis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Relative to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI space? Absolutely.

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verandaguy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nah. They're all rotten to the core, just in different ways.

The key difference between xAI and Anthropic/OAI/Google is that xAI has the least-likely path to existing as viable business in a decade.

That said, the economics of the entire AI industry are kinda made up at this point, so who really knows; it's quite possible that the players with the best odds of surviving the crash are those that can draw funding from their parent company's other businesses.

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anonym29 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>The key difference between xAI and Anthropic/OAI/Google is that xAI has the least-likely path to existing as viable business in a decade.

I don't know, renting out a fleet of GPUs at annualized rate of ~100% of the capex deployed to obtain said GPUs seems reasonably better than lighting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire in order to earn tens of billions of dollars.

	▲	halfmatthalfcat 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The GPUs that depreciate like gangbusters. Yeah, solid long term plan.

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LastTrain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

David was a good vs evil with an order of magnitude fewer resources on the good side. XAi is evil vs evil with comparable resources on each side. Now this is where I know you’re MAGA because as I’ve said a million times you guys don’t do fair comparisons.