The Takeover by SpaceX was obviously a Bailout.
And now they pressure NASDAQ to change the rules so they can dump their junk into the index funds.
Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
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Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#262> Recruiters have been contacting unsuccessful candidates from previous interviews and assessments to offer them jobs, often on better financial terms, the people said.
I'm not sure those candidates would want to work for xAI after seeing the news and everything unless they desperately need a job right now.
It's not hard to imagine getting laid off or fired weeks if not days after joining the company.
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#263I think the problem for xAI is that it can really only hire two types of researchers - people who are philosophically aligned with Elon, and people who are solely money-motivated (not a judgment). But frontier AI research is a field with a lot of top talent who have strong philosophical motivation for their work, and those philosophies are often completely at odds with Elon. OpenAI and Anthropic have philosophical ni…
Why does being a top AI researcher so often come with this philosophical bent you describe?
Because they can afford it, they are very sought after.
And smart people usually have moral convictions.
I know for some people on this website it's hard to understand, but not everything in life is about $$$
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#264I think the problem for xAI is that it can really only hire two types of researchers - people who are philosophically aligned with Elon, and people who are solely money-motivated (not a judgment). But frontier AI research is a field with a lot of top talent who have strong philosophical motivation for their work, and those philosophies are often completely at odds with Elon. OpenAI and Anthropic have philosophical ni…
Why does being a top AI researcher so often come with this philosophical bent you describe?
You are paying the smartest people in the world to think really really hard, and turns out they might also think really really hard about not making the world a worse place
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#265Unfortunate. The Grok team built a phenomenal model. I use it all the time and it very often out performs GPT and Claude, on coding and STEM research related tasks. I was part of the beta for a while Grok 4.2 Beta with multi-agents and it was just amazingly good. People aren't using it for reasons other than its capabilities. I mean, I don't think my boss would approve a paid Grok subscription for example.
Yes, the white genocide and mechahitler episodes have suppressed adoption.
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be a nazi bar, but it's a high-class fancy kind of nazi bar like you'd find on the Hindenburg, and that's more important.
Does that mean we get to throw the Nazis out the Hindenburg's window, cos they lack tickets?
Dr.Jones (either one) is too uncouth to be allowed in here.
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's worse than that. Elon is a notoriously bad employer, and the only people that put up with him were the people that shared his vision. Pretty much the only people that will work for him now are second rate researchers and people that think gooner AI and racism is a worthwhile mission.
There's some texture here. Elon's enriched pretty much everybody who's ever worked for and invested with him. He makes money for people throughout his orgs. Many ex-employees have said to me: "incredible opportunity, made great money, worked insanely hard, once is plenty".
He's a notorious cheapskate and Tesla is known for firing people shortly before their stock options vest
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does being a top AI researcher so often come with this philosophical bent you describe?
Because they can afford it, they are very sought after. And smart people usually have moral convictions. I know for some people on this website it's hard to understand, but not everything in life is about $$$
I'm smart and you can buy my morals. So what?
Re: Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW it looks there’s now a demand surge with the introduction of the new cheap cybertruck variant. delivery dates pushed out to the fall of 2026.
That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1] [1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in... EDIT: grammar
What's an artificial boost? Sounds like you're describing a sale.