What could have they possibly shown to the investors to get that kind of cash thrown at them? Asking for a friend... Did x.ai just become worth more than x.com? We must be nearing the bubble popping...
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xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
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#102He is the richest man in the world and he doesn’t have 6B in the pocket to finance it on his own?
why do wealthy people get mortgages to buy their homes when they can just pay full cash?
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#103He is the richest man in the world and he doesn’t have 6B in the pocket to finance it on his own?
Seeking investment is a sensible way to raise money and be more accountable IMO. And if investors are ready, why would anyone risk their own money? It's plain business sense.
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“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.
Very little people seem to understand that. And actually there is no need to go as far as “universe” to get to something that can’t be captured by language. Human existence is such an example. For this reason I don’t think llms are going to be good film makers for instance. Sure an llm will be able to spit the scenario of the next action movie, those already seem to be automatically generated anyway. But making a fil…
That's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.
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Thanks! That page is a good find. Very few of the names stand out to me (being adjacently familiar with the space). However I did search based on your link… (Edit: with the exception of Chris Szegedy, thanks to the reply below for pointing that out) Most of them seem to have been secondary/tertiary people on the projects listed. Definitely feels a bit like resume padding. It’s also unfortunate that searching for the…
Chris Szegedy is a big name at least
Ah yeah you’re right. Though I am surprised he lists himself online as co-founder while being so far down the list here.
I wonder if everyone on this list is a co-founder? I would imagine they’d have preferred to list by seniority.
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> BYD is better than Tesla cars Are you aware of the recent issues with BYD and other Chinese EV brands? Entire dealerships have gone up in flames from dangerous vehicles. Not lone incidents but tens of dealerships at least, in just this month. Tesla cars may have flaws but there is no way a BYD can be compared to them even on the basics. And Tesla’s software is simply way better and makes it clear that it was design…
> Are you aware of the recent issues with BYD and other Chinese EV brands? No, but I'd like to know more. > Entire dealerships have gone up in flames from dangerous vehicles. Not lone incidents but tens of dealerships at least, in just this month. Wow! Here's one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2544ndvkepo ( Although no brand is given and it's a " possibly " on being caused by an EV ) Can you provide links to 19…
Sorry I don’t have a news source, but saw it mentioned in social media. It’s basically a daily occurrence in recent times is my recollection, and often the investigation is done by the offending car company itself rather than public officials, usually resulting in them pointing fingers at something else (like “bad charger”).
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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.
Imagine hating someone so much you resort to making stuff up.
The engineers did not think it would be a disaster, they thought it would erode as it had in previous testing (which would've been fine since the water plate system was already being designed), but hadn't expected the concrete to shatter the way it did.
Nearby residential properties have already either been bought by SpaceX or are otherwise required to be evacuated before launches. Those evacuation notices are a big part of tracking when launches are actually about to happen.