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People are going to hate on Grok because of Musk. However, I do hope they're successful in making a powerful model. We desperately need more competition. I want
by kilroy123 6mo ago
People are going to hate on Grok because of Musk. However, I do hope they're successful in making a powerful model. We desperately need more competition. I want cheap subsidized AI plans.
I hope Meta finally comes around, too. I want those sweet, sweet billionaire subsidized tokens.
- troupo 6mo agoCredit where it's due, Grok is currently the only model that has near-realtime updates from/access to a waterhose of data, and is casually used by regular people all the time. I don't think there's a single thread on Xitter whete people don't delegate some question to grok. (There's a separate conversation of failure modes, and whether it's a good thing, and how much control Elon had when he doesn't like Grok's "woke" responses)
- bakies 6mo agoAll the major tools can websearch guy
- HanClinto 6mo agoIt's not just about web search though -- there's another element too. I go to Grok to find things I have failed to find with web search. I agree with GP -- if I want sourced commentary on current events, Grok is my go-to above the other models. For whatever reason, its search feels better and more up-to-date -- whereas the others feel more like filters of media, Grok feels more like filters of sources. Could just be my perception though. YMMV
- troupo 6mo agoGrok seems to work faster, and especially in the context of twitter it actually is routinely used, and pulls from current events quite quickly.
- ai_fry_ur_brain 6mo agoYour $200 claude code subscription is a cheap subsidized plan. You're getting like 40k in tokens a year for $2400. A whole lotta people are about to be sad when they realize they bet their competency on that lasting forever.
- kilroy123 6mo agoThat's my point. While the billionares fight each other over who has the best model, this will continue for a while. At least, I think so.
- renegade-otter 6mo agoI think the party ends this year.
- user34283 6mo agoLuckily inference is cheap, and other providers offer efficient models. It’s only going to get better in the future.
- ai_fry_ur_brain 6mo agoIts not though, just because your favorite CEO or youtuber said it will, doesnt mean it will. Inference is not cheap, you have no idea what you're talking about. Every new chinese model has doubled their prices in the last two weeks
- user34283 6mo agoKimi K2.6, the leading open-weights model, is $0.95 input / $4.00 output / $0.16 cache. That’s about 1.45x more expensive than K2.5 from January. It is around 5x cheaper than GPT 5.5.
- renegade-otter 6mo agoPardon me for feeling icky when giving money to the guy who is obsessed with "white replacement". I am old and cynical - I have no illusions, but I also have my limits and a semblance of moral compass. We, as citizens, can vote with ballots, but also with money. And, no, I am not someone who keeps boycotting companies for every little grievance (was on the receiving end of that nonsense twice).
- foltik 6mo agoNever used grok, never will.
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- renegade-otter 6mo ago"I know who Hugo Boss caters to but, damn, they make good threads." - Someone in the 1930s, probably.
- ReptileMan 6mo agoIf the only people openly caring about the future of Europe are the Hugo Boss fans, then all the people caring about said future will go to them. If the far right are the only people with sane immigration and asylum policies, I have no choice but to vote for them, even if I disagree with everything else they preach.
- DonHopkins 6mo agoYour racism makes you so easily manipulated.
- ReptileMan 6mo agoXenophobia. At least have the decency to accuse of the right vice