Critics Say xAI's 'Only 3 Years Old' Claim Ignores Hired Talent and Early Gains
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Elon had lost people like Zelikman, Babushkin and so many others, people he had acquired with the promise of a lean, GPU-rich lab moving at maximum velocity, and the velocity got throttled. Maybe 1 year lost. We'll see if Cursor bails him out now. I hope he stays competitive.
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTexThis is mostly true but I don't want to say "xAI is slow". Because the reality is MUCH WORSE. xAI was legit the fastest lab at some point. grok-3-mini, for example, was a claim to the Pareto frontier. At that trajectory, Grok ought to have left all China in the dust by Q4 2025.
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