xAI
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company focused on developing AI systems to understand the universe.
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Both are among the four major US AI companies. Raoul says xAI built its own large data centers to run its models.
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Both are among the four major US AI companies. Raoul says xAI built its own large data centers to run its models.
"Elon got there and he's done pretty well with xAI. He had to build the compute. He had to build those data centers. But now he's built a bigger and better one, which is why he can rent out Colossus."
Contrasted with OpenAI and Google as examples of different AI compute strategies
"If China hadn't forced the issue by open sourcing, suppose there was just OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, XAI, all four US companies."
Mentioned alongside OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic as the four major US AI companies
What creators say
"I'm talking more about SpaceX. xAI is also doing insane stuff, but just that."
More from Peter Sellis →"Before XAI even got anywhere, he was consistent. We shouldn't — I wish I don't want to be doing this, but it's already been done. It's too late."
More from Harry Stebbings →"We seem to hear from Sam, OpenAI, Dario, Anthropic, Elon, xAI that they're willing to slow down, have some sort of deal."
More from Roman Yampolskiy →"There's been a lot of churn at xAI for sure, and SpaceX-ers have kind of marched in and helped out where there were significant gaps in that arena. We were all really excited to learn about AI."
More from Gwynne Shotwell →"xAI was a shell of a company that was mostly valuable because of Elon's infrastructure and capex that Elon bought. It wasn't because of the tech or even the people who largely walked out the door after that acquisition."
More from Dave McClure →"We all make fun of xAI for having some challenges with total flop utilization on its clusters, but the reality for the rest of the world is it's far, far worse."
More from Neil Movva →"Elon got there and he's done pretty well with xAI. He had to build the compute. He had to build those data centers. But now he's built a bigger and better one, which is why he can rent out Colossus."
More from Raoul Pal →"If China hadn't forced the issue by open sourcing, suppose there was just OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, XAI, all four US companies."
More from Alexander Wissner-Gross →
"This is what xAI essentially is — the long-term vision, right? Where Elon's making Terafab to make his own chips and vertically integrating, running his own data center."
More from Salim Ismail →"It's OpenAI, it's Anthropic, it's xAI — all these sort of frontier labs that people use the products every day."
More from Kush Bavaria →"Why would we short-change the way that we present our nation to the world? It doesn't make any sense to me that we have a nation where you can have ideas like xAI and OpenAI and be on the forefront of technological innovation, and in the same nati..."
More from Joe Gebbia →
"I was in Palo Alto a couple weeks ago, and Elon was in the back doing engineering reviews at xAI. He's just there working."
More from Joe Lonsdale →+1 more mention from Joe
"I have a few bets of level three with Elon's xAI with Anthropic and etc."
"xAI, DeepSeek, and Miscral all failed outright, one on each continent."
"XAI is where this just gets to a whole another level of insanity. They raised money at a $230 billion valuation but on only $500 million in sales. That is a 460x their revenue. That is madness."
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