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Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by mattbillenstein »

tomhow wrote: post #5
justinkramp wrote: post #3

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Please don't just post the most obvious snarky comment about a given topic. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorta amazes me how people in various levels of power will not say the obvious thing or actively discourage saying the obvious thing because it might offend Elon.

Recently all the big bank CEOs involved with the SpaceX IPO - a lot of money in that for them - but a company trading at 100x sales is clearly crazy.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by ryandrake »

mplewis wrote: post #45
jamiequint wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

read the top comment

read any of your other replies

OP seems to be asking for examples with an intent to dismiss and downplay each of them, and not to actually read into them and challenge his existing beliefs about X/Grok/Musk.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by croes »

dimgl wrote: post #12
SimianSci wrote: post #6

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They made it open source. Are you just trying to be bad faith here? Isn't this what the community was asking for?

How about stopping the upload of all the data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371

and running their data center with gas turbines without permission while they pollute the air

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705717

you can’t expect people to praise your for making an n+1 harness open source.

This seems more like, look we made something, now fix it for us

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by jdiff »

jamiequint wrote: post #47
jdiff wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/xais-grok-suddenly-cant-s...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-making-changes...

Starkly different. One was a well meaning attempt to squash model bias gone wrong, the other is a deliberately inserted bias. Even ignoring all that, whataboutism is not persuasive.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by ben_w »

blfr wrote: post #29
SimianSci wrote: post #6

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Your choice is Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or the Chinese. Who are the good actors within the space?

Rank ordered by reputation / caring about having a trustworthy corporate identity: [Google, Anthropic] in either order depending who you ask, OpenAI, most of the Chinese AI corporations, then Grok.

This is unfortunate situation to find ourselves in when Grok was also recently at the top of the Pareto frontier for quality/price. Dunno if it still is, this all moves too fast, but it was for at least long enough for me to have heard about it.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by dimgl »

croes wrote: post #53
dimgl wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They made it open source. Are you just trying to be bad faith here? Isn't this what the community was asking for?

How about stopping the upload of all the data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371 and running their data center with gas turbines without permission while they pollute the air https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705717 you can’t expect people to praise your for making an n+1 harness open source. This seems more like, look we made something, now fix it for us

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Re: Grok Build is open source

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Post by dmix »

loufe wrote: post #2

I wonder if releasing this may have been on the roadmap, but been prioritized as a bit of whiplash following the "you forfeit the entirety of your working directory as a condition of working with this tool" upset from a few days ago.

Most likely, SpaceX killed the code uploading yesterday so they are definitely concerned about the backlash

> The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promis...

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