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not even one-third of the valuation openai thinks they're worth (up to 340b). and still below what investors thought in 2022 (157b). src
i think this is old spice admitting that xAI is total bullshit and he's giving up on making his own.
Open-source just turned its value to dog shit, I'd say the offer is far above its value.
With how twitters value has gone since he bought it, I'd say he is pretty bad at this
Yes, specially 600 billion of federal funding
I'd take $5M of government funding and make similar progress. Yo DOGE, call me.
I thought this was because he’s still pissy they cut him out, but I guess his reasons can be multifaceted
Well, to be 100% fair, it's all total bullshit.
I use a 16b reduction of deepseek-r1 on my pc at home and it's definitely not total bullshit. It's 10gb of local model that can solve mathematics and physics problems for you or program in python or bash. It doesn't hallucinate (or I haven't been able to elicit it), it's aware of the extents of its knowledge. It works incredibly fast on an old ryzen 1600 with 6600xt. Having an open source reasoning AI that takes 10gb of SSD and about 13 gb of ram is so weird that the only thing weirder is seeing smart people dismiss it as bullshit out of hand.
How stupid is this conspiracy theory:
If it were a threat, like “this is what you’re gonna be worth if you don’t accept, anyway” depending on how power drunk he was feeling when hitting Tweet
Maybe below what investors or OpenAI thinks, but I think I'd take it. Unless they've got more secrets up their sleeve I don't seem them ever being worth that much.
Lol is that even a thing? xAI? I've never heard of it, and I self host AI's, and explore them often.