So.. tech winter over?
Just rename your company adding .AI and it will be immediately summer
xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
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#152> 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?
Seems like the Nigerian Prince bayesian model as analysed by Microsoft. Due to many false positives within the thousands of potential responders pool, they emit a signal that only a real easy victim would fall for to reduce the costs of their final filtering process.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#153Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#154What 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...
I wonder if the investors are just like crypto-bros and pyramid-schemers. Knowing it's bullshit, but hoping the next dumbass will come tomorrow, next week, etc, to buy it off them where they can make a profit...
Considering the price of e.g. BTC, maybe thinking "People with money can't be this dumb!" is the dumbass move...
Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#155Did they raise 6B or are they valued at 6B and don't disclose the raised amount? Probably the latter?
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is other than money, is it fair he puts himself on top of the Technical Team? What is next? Andy Jassy as Tech Lead of AWS AI Team?
Elon is a megalomaniac who fancies himself an engineer (yes he used to be one, but his with then is oft disparaged) Even if he had the best names in the industry attached, he would always put himself first. I don’t think it’s wrong he’d do so either , because he has a cult of personality that would make him the biggest feature (positive/negative) of any company he is involved with. Hence why I specifically only ask f…
When was he an Engineer?
Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#157What is the bull case here? They close the gap to Anthropic and become a 4th place player?
Elon Musk is planning to invoice the AI ....to Tesla and X a la Adam Neumann.... https://www.ft.com/content/2a96995b-c799-4281-8b60-b235e84ae...
Isn't that ... illegal? He's just using one investor's money to another.
Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#158Sometimes I pray for a meteor
Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#159> xAI will continue on this steep trajectory of progress over the coming months, with multiple exciting technology updates and products soon to be announced. There is a lot of potential for using AI in drug discovery and development, biotech more broadly and chemistry/material science. Pharma is investing heavily in this right now. If useful, the output here could potentially also support Neuralink and even SpaceX. C…
The “true nature of the universe” bit is that Elon believes that competing LLMs are too neutered because they disallow certain terms etc. (his words are much more politically charged and I do not agree with his take on this and many other things) Therefore he believes that Grok can be an LLM trained on the voices of the people using his alleged free speech platform:X.
Is the assumption here is that we can somehow understand the nature of the universe if we stop censoring the common man and have an unmuzzled LLM that talks like him instead of the Bay Area AI elites? My uneducated guess is well learn more about the true nature of the common clay^w man.
Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon Musk is planning to invoice the AI ....to Tesla and X a la Adam Neumann.... https://www.ft.com/content/2a96995b-c799-4281-8b60-b235e84ae...
Isn't that ... illegal? He's just using one investor's money to another.
Well, Elon Musk is holding AI development ransom unless he's granted sufficient shares in Tesla to take his holdings above 25%. So I suppose they can give him billions to solve for self-driving the "easy" way, or the "hard" way.
How this is not a conflict of interest, I do not know; then again it may explain why Elon wants to reincorporate Tesla in Texas - away from Delaware courts