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xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by gizajob »

lionkor wrote: post #6

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes ... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model". Do these companies only hire yes men?

“The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe” - There’s no way an LLM is going to get anywhere near understanding this. The true nature of the universe is unlikely to be captured in language.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by klyrs »

chambo622 wrote: post #12
floppiplopp wrote: post #9

Anything Musk is now too many inferior products and broken promises for any sensible investor. Might as well just burn the money.

Yet the money keeps coming, so I want to learn what I'm missing.

> I want to learn what I'm missing.

The perverse thing is that betting on the irrational behavior of other investors seems paradoxically rational at this point. Just, don't get caught holding the bag.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by [deleted] »

stonogo wrote: post #64
ETH_start wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a peculiar company mission so not sure why you find it odd to make the official one of xAI. The all-encompassing nature of it seems befitting a company producing increasingly general-purpose AI.

Sure it does. The problem is that they're not producing any general-purpose AI.

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Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by tw04 »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #59
BrainInAJar wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's probably better for both companies that he isn't. Better for him to torch a $6b series B and Twitter than mess up spacex & tesla more than he already has

The vanity CyberTruck, I get is a mess. And that lands at Elon's feet. What mess is afoot at SpaceX that is his doing?

He’s been mostly too distracted with Twitter. His last one was the launch pad all his engineers told him would be a disaster that he insisted on doing anyway. That legitimately had the possibility to put them out of commission for years had the concrete seriously damaged any nearby residential properties.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by melodyogonna »

lionkor wrote: post #6

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes ... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model". Do these companies only hire yes men?

Everybody wants Elon Musk to make them some money.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by Intralexical »

lionkor wrote: post #6

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes ... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model". Do these companies only hire yes men?

Hopefully incompetence can save us from the megalomania.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by nomilk »

spiderice wrote: post #67
nomilk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Comma.ai is better than Tesla FSD I don't know about the other comparisons mentioned, but Hotz himself said comma is/has always been about 2 years behind Tesla.

Did GP ninja edit their comment? I don’t see that quote

Yup (what's quoted is precisely what was in the original comment). The reply was very soon (2 minutes) after the original comment, so perhaps GP's author corrected themselves (edited the comment) during that time (prior to noticing the reply).

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by rvz »

rullopat wrote: post #57

He is the richest man in the world and he doesn’t have 6B in the pocket to finance it on his own?

I don't think you know how this works. The rich don't risk with their own money, only the money from others.

Even if they do, it is much less of their wealth on the line managed by others to grow it.

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