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I wonder to what extent it matters… but, Musk has mostly lead companies where he comes with a new competitor against incredibly stagnant competition, right? (ba
by bee_rider 1y ago
I wonder to what extent it matters… but, Musk has mostly lead companies where he comes with a new competitor against incredibly stagnant competition, right? (banking, cars, rockets). He seems to have a strategy of convincing some young engineers to work really hard on a neat new idea. That, combined with the stagnant competition, produces a sudden dramatic leap past the competition that gets people interested.
LLMs were already the hot-shit new tech that was attracting a ton of excited talent. What’s xAI got to offer that OpenAI doesn’t? Training off a mediocre social media network I guess.
- 827a 1y agoThe difference is, his stagnant competition in the AI space is way, way less stagnant than Boeing and Ford. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are not stagnant; they're the hottest companies out there paying million dollar salaries.
- bee_rider 1y agoYah, that’s what I was getting at. TBH I’m skeptical that AI will live up to the hype. But stagnant they certainly are not!