Formation of @xAI → July '23
Preview of their first AI → November '23 ~4 months from tweet to a (presumably) cutting edge AI with revenue and distribution figured out. Really makes you think about what can be done in a year.
BIG TECH
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xAI’s Rapid Development Timeline: From Formation to Market
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GM Cruise Exposed: Human Operators Behind Self-Driving Claims
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Nice post by Gary Marcus on the revelation by the New York Times that GM's Cruise unit is apparently employing a large number of human operators behind the scenes to make self-driving work. https://
garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-cruise
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Grōk: Everything You Need to Know About xAI’s AI Model
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Everything you need to know about Grōk so far from the one and only @rowancheung Just love how they name stuff over there Grōk is unique and holds so much meaning at the same time
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Anthropic praised as EA’s most significant contribution
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yep that's fair. Anthropic is the only good thing to come out of EA.
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OpenAI DevDay Keynote Livestream Monday 10AM PST
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We’re live streaming the OpenAI DevDay keynote on Monday at 10AM PST. Tune in!
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Google Ships AI Products Alongside Perplexity and OpenAI
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Google ships too. Not just Perplexity or OpenAI.
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OpenAI Dev Day 2026: Customization, Multimodality, Collaboration, Mediums
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Think BIG for OpenAI Dev Day. More customization and personalization More modalities More collaboration More mediums
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OpenAI Dev Day Announcements: API and Model Improvements Expected
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The big question this weekend: what is @OpenAI going to announce on Monday at Dev Day? Everyone is trying to predict the announcements. And I keep seeing things like API releases or speed or finetuning improvements.
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OpenAI’s Major Announcement Expected Beyond API Release
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Friends, it’s going to be WAY BIGGER than that. Look at the tweets from OpenAI people. You don’t work insane nights and host a dev day just to release an API. Also, that would be a disappointing live-streamed event. Put your tech marketing hat on. Imagine the press coverage.
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Altman and Murati predict AGI achievement within decade
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Two weeks ago, Sam Altman @sama and Mira Murati @miramurati did an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Both predicted that we would achieve AGI in less than 10 years. https://
youtu.be/byYlC2cagLw?si
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