With all the saga around @windsurf_ai over the last 72 hours, it’s worth looking back to 2015, when VS Code was launched and open-sourced. The decision to open source ultimately led to at least 2 startups valued at $12bn+ in total. There are many stories to be told: pivots,
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Major Tech Acquisitions Loom as AI Reshapes Corporate Landscape
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The biggest acquisitions ever are coming. There is no guarantee even companies like Amazon or Facebook will still exist in 10 years if they don’t get AI right. EVERYTHING is up for grabs. No company is safe. It’s going to get a lot crazier.
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Tech Mogul Claims AI Race Victory With Secret Sauce
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All tech moguls will be forgotten, save for the one that wins the AI race . . . and I have the secret sauce . . . $1T, please.
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Grok 4 Pricing Tiers: $30 Monthly or $300 SuperGrok Heavy
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Access & Price: Grok 4: $30/mo (via X Premium+ or xAI API) Grok 4 Heavy: $300/mo under the “SuperGrok Heavy” tier—exclusive and powerful
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Tracking AI Spending and Public Investment Data
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It would be cool to track actual spend with each, if public
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DoD Awards $200M Contracts to Four AI Companies
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in case you’re curious about all the govt/AI news today, the DoD awarded the same contract (each w $200m ceiling) to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI
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Grok 4 Launches: 2x Better Than Claude Opus 4
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🚀 Grok 4 just dropped
— Louis-François Bouchard 🎥🤖 (@Whats_AI) 15 juillet 2025
• 2× better than Claude Opus 4 on ARC-AGI-2
• Multi-agent Heavy tier: $300 / mo
• Elon: “smarter than any grad student”
Hype or game-changer?👇#Grok4 #xAI #AInews #AGI pic.twitter.com/u00uuFHvwwGrok 4 just dropped • 2× better than Claude Opus 4 on ARC-AGI-2
• Multi-agent Heavy tier: $300 / mo
• Elon: “smarter than any grad student” Hype or game-changer? #Grok4 #xAI #AInews #AGI -
Six-Way Parlay: AI Startup Acquisitions Predictions
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six way parlay. i want Mistral founders to Apple, Mistral team to Meta. Character remainco to Perplexity. Quora to Perplexity. Ideogram to Figma. Gamma to Notion. read it back