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1. Cost to hire is now prohibitive. You're competing against companies like Meta paying tens of millions for top talent. 2. Cost to train is also prohibitive.

1. Cost to hire is now prohibitive. You're competing against companies like Meta paying tens of millions for top talent. 2. Cost to train is also prohibitive. Grok data centre has 200,000 H100 Graphics cards. Impossible for a startup to compete with this.

tonyhart7 1y ago
"Impossible for a startup to compete with this." its funny to me since xAI literally the "youngest" in this space and recently made an Grok4 that surpass all frontier model it literally not impossible
- lukan 1y ago
  I mean, that's a startup backed by the richest man in the world who also was engaged with OpenAI in the beginning. I assume startup here means the average one, that has a little bit less of funding and connections.
  - tonyhart7 1y ago
    so is Meta(fb) and Apple but that doesn't seem to be the case money is "less" important factor, I don't say they don't matters but much less than you would think
  - ascorbic 1y ago
    The richest man in the world, who could also divert the world's biggest GPU order from his other company
- ako 1y ago
  Most startups don't have Elon Musk's money.
- re-thc 1y ago
  xAI isn’t young. The brand, maybe. Not the actual history / timeline. Tesla was working on AI long ago. xAI was just spun out to raise more money / fix the x finance issues.