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The Musk effect is pretty crazy. Or is there another explanation for why x can compete with Google?
by roflyear 1y ago
The Musk effect is pretty crazy. Or is there another explanation for why x can compete with Google?
- Davidzheng 1y agoThey have a lot of compute already and Grok 4 was pretty strong?
- whimsicalism 1y agothey’ve managed to acquire compute remarkably quickly and i’m no Musk lover
- deltaburnt 1y agoThinking more cynically: political corruption and connections I'm guessing? Just a couple months ago Musk was treating the US government like his personal playground.
- ENGNR 1y agoElon's Y Combinator interview was pretty good. He seemed more in his element back amongst the hacker crowd (rather than dirty politics), and seemed to be doing hackery things at X, like renting generators and mobile cooling vans and just putting them the car park outside a warehouse to train Grok, since there were no data centres available and he was told it would take 2 years to set it all up properly. I think he's just good at attracting good talent, and letting them focus on the right things to move fast initially, while cutting the supporting infra down to zero until it's needed.
- criddell 1y agoAre you talking about this: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-memphis-illegal-generators https://futurism.com/elon-musk-memphis-illegal-generators It's hackery but also kind of sociopathic to dump a bunch of loud, dirty generators in the middle of a low-income community. Go set your data center up on Martha's Vineyard and see how long the residents put up with it.
- raincole 1y agoBecause they started so late but somehow managed to make something close to SOTA? Either way or people think Trump will just give Elon a 500B government contract...