Grok, almost six months to the day after Elon signed the pause letter. Too perfect.
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xAI Announces Grok-0: 33B Parameter LLM Approaching LLaMA 2
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Announcing #Grok by @xai @elonmusk v/ @_akhaliq Blog https://
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trained a prototype LLM (Grok-0) with 33 billion parameters. This early model approaches LLaMA 2 (70B) capabilities on standard LM benchmarks but uses only half of its -
Algorithmic engagement optimization versus truth in content
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It’s designed to make you feel something, not designed to reflect the world. Causing you to feel disgust, disbelief, or pity is a victory condition; if it can accomplish that will outcompete a less evocative video of a family eating dinner. “Solve for equilibrium.” as they say.
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Google, Meta, and OpenAI dominate consumer LLM market
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All this means that we will end up with Google, Meta, and potentially OpenAI being the key players in the consumer LLM (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) world. /9
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Google and Meta’s Data Advantage in LLM Development
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Meta enjoys the same advantage in terms of being able to use Facebook and Instagram data. This will translate to Google and Meta LLMs being able to serve and respond to general information queries better than LLMs from OpenAI or other start-ups. /4
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Google and Meta’s Competitive Advantage in LLM Training Data
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Google and Meta have a huge advantage here compared to anyone else. Google, because of it's search dominance can get away with crawling every website that wants their search traffic and can use YouTube and potentially Gmail data to train their LLMs. /3
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CEO Layoffs Preferred Over Salary Cuts Legal Concerns
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Layoffs happening already. Cutting salaries can be harder to do legally, so layoffs are CEO's preferred solution…
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TikTok Algorithms: Government Control and Social Division Risk
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Just saying, if I were a government that controlled the company that controlled TikTok, I would absolutely use it to exploit our free society with algorithms that fed into everyone’s confirmation bias, tribalism and need to be right in order to create more division and hate.
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Elon Musk Confirms Grok Significance in Social Media Response
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@Scobleizer nailed the significance and meaning of Grok. Which @elonmusk confirmed in a reply.
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Elon Musk xAI announces Grok beta chatbot with real-time Twitter data
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Looks like we’re in for some major news in AI this week. Elon Musk and @xai are kicking it off with the announcement of a “very early beta” of Grok, their new chatbot that is designed to be snarky and has real-time access to Twitter / X data. Twitter Premium+ subscribers