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By "reached into his own pocket," you mean he leveraged engineering resources from Twitter, and then once it became clear that Grok wasn't a competitive model,
by nkohari 2y ago
By "reached into his own pocket," you mean he leveraged engineering resources from Twitter, and then once it became clear that Grok wasn't a competitive model, raised $6,000,000,000 in capital from VCs and sovereign wealth funds [1] to pay for the additional compute necessary?
[1] https://x.ai/blog/series-b https://x.ai/blog/series-b
- logicchains 2y agoIf six billion dollars is all it takes to build a competitor, OpenAI doesn't deserve a 100 billion+ valuation.
- rchaud 2y agoReally stretching the definition of "competitor" here.