5 ms·
Okay, I know Tesla's extremely high P/E ratio is because it's worth is not just tied to cars, and so xAI priced at $20B more than Anthropic does not necessarily
by danso 2y ago
Okay, I know Tesla's extremely high P/E ratio is because it's worth is not just tied to cars, and so xAI priced at $20B more than Anthropic does not necessarily mean xAI's AI products are that much better than Anthropic's (e.g. presumably xAI's worth is tied to synergies with Tesla FSD, Optimus, and maybe even Neurolink)...but what products does xAI actually offer, other than Grok being an add-on for premium X subscriptions?
Not only does the Grok API not have access to Grok 3, which was released more than a month ago, it doesn't even have it's own SDK? [0]
> Some of Grok users might have migrated from other LLM providers. xAI API is designed to be compatible with both OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs, except certain capabilities not offered by respective SDK. If you can use either SDKs, we recommend using OpenAI SDK for better stability.
(every code example has a call for `from openai import OpenAI`)
How would using Grok be viable for any enterprise? And if Grok's API is designed to be drop-in replacement for OpenAI's, how are they not able to just use Grok to whip up their own SDK variant based on OpenAI's open-sourced SDK [1] and API spec?
[0] https://docs.x.ai/docs/guides/migration https://docs.x.ai/docs/guides/migration
[1] https://github.com/openai/openai-python https://github.com/openai/openai-python
- dimitri-vs 2y agoNot a fan of Grok by any means but an SDK isn't that much of a requirement. We use liteLLM as it gets really annoying to roll your own router when you have so many viable providers with various specialties.
- thorum 2y agoThe OpenAI library is used pretty much everywhere in the LLM world, every serious AI provider has an OpenAI-compatible API, or you can use something like OpenRouter which is also OpenAI-compatible. Standardization is good.
- electriclove 2y agoGrok is also a stand-alone product with an optional $30/month subscription. Perhaps they are seeing a huge increase in usage here and are hoping that subscriptions follow.
- pests 2y agoAs others have said, the openai sdk is the defacto baseline sdk everyone uses. Like how every object store is compatible with S3.
- paradite 2y agoFor anyone not in LLM field, OpenAI API is the de facto standard for almost all AI companies and labs nowadays. DeepSeek docs just point users to use OpenAI SDK: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/ https://api-docs.deepseek.com/ Anthropic recently did some something similar: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/openai-sdk https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/openai-sdk
- btbuildem 2y agoIt's not because it's any better -- it's because they were first. Others assume the same schema for easy interop.