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

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Post by LeoPanthera »

bagels wrote: post #52
blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unique data set. And Elon. And with Elon, comes a great set of talent. From https://x.ai/about > Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Collectively our team contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, in particular the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We further introduced innovative techniques and analyses such as…

What unique dataset? Tweets?

Yup. They're going to have the greatest training set of trolls, shitposts, and propaganda.

The only universe they're going to end up understanding is the one inside Elon's head.

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

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Post by ravetcofx »

lars_francke wrote: post #48

X.ai used to be a service similar to calendly. I still mourn its shutdown and, seeing this, had hoped that it is resurrected :(

I've been using the free version of cal.com which has been phenomenal, and there's self hostable option which is nice

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

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Post by goethes_kind »

bagels wrote: post #58
andrewstuart wrote: post #33

Do venture capitalists usually back companies with part time founder/CEOs?

No. But they will certainly back ones that have built multiple 100B companies.

AI is not rocket science. It's child's play compared to space tech.

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Post by ETH_start »

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.

Whether you agree that their work constitutes advances toward more general purpose AI, they're in an industry where that is ostensibly the goal, which makes their choice of mission statement appropriate.

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Post by mvkel »

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.

I would think full-throated development of a diffusion model would make a lot more sense to achieve the mission, since its chief mechanism is separating signal from noise.

Considering we're the only beings in the known universe that have language, I'm not sure there are many universal insights to be gleaned from an LLM

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

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Post by belter »

dagmx wrote: post #60
belter wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is at least one person there at the top of the Technical Team....I don't recognize from the scene, at least his name does not show as author or co-author in any ML papers I can remember reading...a certain Elon Musk.... :-)

Well the question they were responding to (mine) specifically says “other than Elon”. So it’s very fair to exclude him.

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?

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

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Post by somenameforme »

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.

If you take your assumptions as a given and end up at a contradiction, then there is a rather logical explanation.
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