I resigned from xAI tonight. It makes me very sad, but was the right thing to do -- and here's why. xAI told me I either had to delete the post quoted below, or face being fired. After reviewing everything and thinking a lot, I've decided that I'm not going to delete the post -- which is very clearly a harmless personal opinion. Why did they tell me to remove this opinion? Well, according to them, the reason is that I acknowledged that Grok 3... exists. I wish I was joking. I'm not. That's the reason -- the fact that I wrote "Grok 3 (TBD)" is grounds for being fired. But wait, hasn't Grok 3 been officially acknowledged by xAI? Yes. Yes it has. I'll post below the official xAI blog post talking about Grok 3, along with many public Elon posts and video where it is repeatedly acknowledged. To be clear, the post they wanted me to remove is 100% just my personal opinion. I do not know where Grok 3 will stack up against other SOTA models. Hopefully it does well, I don't know. That's why it says "opinion" and "to be determined." It will probably be pretty good at some things and imperfect at others. I didn't think this was a particularly wild opinion. Again, their official demand said that even writing "Grok 3 - TBD" is somehow "confidential information." This is absolutely absurd, since it's repeatedly been acknowledged by the company and its famous CEO. Are they mad that my clearly-labeled opinion didn't guess that the still-unreleased Grok 3 will be higher? Maybe. Probably. Again, maybe it is at the top, I genuinely don't know. That's why it says "to be determined." The specific feature of Grok I spent the majority of my time working on with a really hard-working team is very cool and I hope it works extremely well for everyone. I won't say what it is because that would be **actual** confidential information. (Maybe after it comes out.) I still hope Elon and xAI win. Yet...... It's very disappointing to me that a company and leaders who supposedly champion free speech and openness would try to fire a low-level employee over a clearly-labeled opinion that contains absolutely nothing controversial, but here we are. The entire situation has been very strange. I thought about just deleting the damn thing.... But you know, once you start caving and giving up holding mild personal opinions, the slope becomes very slippery. I'll keep my speech and dignity and get another job, or build one. Catch ya on the flip side.

X app is the best app, example #57372

If we were a proper country.........

I just searched "how many 4090s do I need to run DeepSeek locally" and ya'll shorting NVDA

It turns out "the next Google" was also Google

Starlink essentially leap-frogged and replaced the entire terrestrial internet and cell networks This is still completely underappreciated and not priced in

"omg it's so crazy Starliner speakers are picking up phantom garbled signals!" people over 30:

When you have all of YouTube as training data:

GPT-4o "free" on iPhone........ how does OpenAI make money from this?

Guys I'm sorry but this is dumb.

Confirmed: ChatGPT is now "stealth searching" the Internet in the background, without showing this to the user.

What if we ALL started using X via VPNs but set the location to Brazil Overwhelm them with digital red herrings to chase

Meta Orion AR glasses. Explain to me why Apple didn't do this? Steve Jobs would have.

How do you defend against this? (not a rhetorical question.....)

Can someone explain why UBI wouldn't just become the de facto inflation level? Like, if you gave everyone $1,000 a month guaranteed, why **wouldn't** all prices just rise? If you get a "free $1,000" but your rent also goes up $1,000 (or food, etc) what is accomplished?

I am often critical of OpenAI but the Sora video previews have left me speechless. This is excellent, world-changing work.

This looks like every Android from ten years ago.

Someone with an actual IQ of 80 would probably not be able to write intelligently, which the post clearly is.....

"Hey just checking on your nighttime erection quality"

OpenAI has brought the director of the NSA to its board of directors Because of course

AI Johnny Cash sings "Barbie Girl"

My xAI team has not taken a day off in 12 days They could have, they just didn't

Google current profitability: 34% net margin Google current cash on hand: $98.5 billion Yeah.

Elon pays OpenAI $200 a month for Pro?

Wait, the Android team is... one guy?

Elon has deleted his comment saying he didn't know Yacine was fired.

A private U.S. company just landed on the Moon. We are so back

Question: why would key people leave an organization right before it was just about to develop AGI?

Yes, well, can a 4090 do THIS

Trump had a chance to start the second term on a more serious, prepared tone but totally trashed that opportunity by launching the scammiest crypto shitcoin in history days before inauguration. Long sigh......

ChatGPT (Premium, GPT-4) now says it can't help you with code scripts. WTF is this?! Hey OpenAI... can you please explain why customers should continue paying for totally nerfed services? Because you're just sending all your users to your competitors at this point.

even the gpu rich are gpu poor

Can you explain how you're working on a PhD in AI yet just discovered undersea internet cables exist? This was nowhere in your previous education? I'm confused.

Google's head of "AI Responsibility" is apparently named Jen Gennai (Gen Gen AI)...? Simulation is getting weird.

I am the most junior person @grok My DMs are open. I will read every message. I will forward the most important to @elonmusk and the team. We will make Grok great. It matters. It is important.

China has a huge advantage in the AI race: total disregard for IP laws They will just train huge models on every movie, every song, all of YouTube We will complain and they will laugh and keep doing it I don't have an answer to this but it's a reality we must face now

Mexico just elected its first female President. She's 61 and has a PhD in Energy Engineering. Mexico about to accelerate?

The buried lede here is that you TOLD it to "pick one." Grok did as you requested. ChatGPT did not, ignoring the user request.

Keep a dumbbell next to your desk and do curls while waiting for Codex and Cursor to finish

This map is a good reason FOR the senate. Why should a rancher in Wyoming want to be told what to do by somebody in Manhattan? The senate is recognition that different places have different views yet are also valuable -- not least of which is because they make all the food.

I have accepted a roll at @xai to help train Grok. I am a very small part of this important endeavor. I hope to learn as much as I can. I hope truth wins.

Meet the new computer user interface..... a black, talking circle.

If OpenAI's o1 can pass OpenAI's research engineer hiring interview for coding -- 90% to 100% rate... ......then why would they continue to hire actual human engineers for this position? Every company is about to ask this question.

Prediction: Ilya will ship nothing, regret not joining Zuck or Elon, and be largely forgotten to history. I'm sorry I don't make the rules

Why are the aliens / "enemy drones" running standard port / starboard nav lights

Uhhhhh GROK?! 😆😁

The ranking currently (my opinion), for code: ChatGPT o1-pro o1 o3-mini (all kind of tied) Grok 3 (expected, tbd) Claude 3.5 Sonnet DeepSeek GPT-4o Grok 2 Gemini 2.0 Pro Series (might be higher, will probably move up)

Would you say you've...... hatched a plan

Here's the official statement released by Scarlett Johansson, detailing OpenAI's alleged illegal usage of her voice... ...read by the Sky AI voice, because irony.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity -- three totally different AI services -- are all down right now. What the actual F is going on?

This is huge. Recent academic paper shows that GPT-4 lost significant capability in code skills over a few months. I love GPT-4 but it would be nice to have OpenAI address this. They've been insisting that users are "imagining it," basically.

POV: Cursor "fixing your code"

How is this going?

How does it being "the thinnest product" help me create, Tim? Apple is lost.

We are so fucking back

Sam this is called an API

Microsoft CEO on OpenAI: Doesn't matter "if OpenAl disappeared tomorrow." "We have all the IP rights and all the capability." "We have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything." "We are below them, above them, around them."

greg's mom:

Steve Bannon just said Elon "isn't an American?" I was pretty neutral on this but that's fucking retarded.

> claims they basically have AGI > can't get their reminder app to work

If you ask Gemini to remove an image background (make transparent png), it gives you the output in a JPEG which doesn't support transparency 🤦

This isn't a "supercar" It's an n ADD Nova kit car... based on top of a 1970s VW-Beetle. Most Novas were built on a VW Beetle floorpan and used the Beetle’s air-cooled flat-four—typically the 1.6-liter (Type 1) twin-port making roughly 50 bhp, with some cars also running the 1200/1300/1500 Beetle engines. A few were later swapped to other engines, but the stock VW 1.6 was by far the usual choice.

So the "AI generated girl" in the car video? Yeah, she appears to be a 100% real person named Arial who does gig videos on Fiverr Some of the biggest AI influencers on X have been telling everyone this was AI generated, and two different AI video companies including @HeyGen_Official have claimed their tech generated them. This whole thing is really strange

Prediction..... Tim Cook's tenure at Apple will not be remembered particularly positively. Mostly taking safe paths and pushing odd products which don't sell well. -Do people want an Advanced Pencil? .....doooo they? -Siri AI... where is it? This should have dominated a year ago. Missed opportunity. -Vision Pro, being cut back because of lackluster sales. Almost all buzz has died very fast. -Apple Car project, killed after billions spent, and right as real Autonomous driving is reality -iPhone and iPad, nearly identical to what they were a decade ago Tim seems nice. But lacks... Fire? Maybe I'm wrong. Just a hot take.

I had to decline a job offer recently from ((major defense contractor)) because they wanted me to sign a paper that ANYTHING I CODED OR DEVELOPED even on weekends unrelated to the job became their IP if they decided.

The slow realization that Yann is a petty, nasty, jealous little b!tch.

Alright I'm gonna say it... This is essentially AGI. This will be seen as magic to masses. What else do you call it when a virtual "person" can listen, talk, see, and reason almost indistinguishably from an average human? Isn't that AGI?

"OpenAI is nothing without its people"

Okay I take back my earlier criticisms Sora 2 is incredibly addicting and fun, this is a new era.

Shoutout to the brave Optimus who was able to get this Indian Ocean shot 🫡

"What is my purpose?" "You pass the butter."

What changed? (genuine)

Wait so.... Sam's original "note" earlier today only addressed Mira leaving. Then he deleted it and posted the new one (up now), where he groups them all together and says "it made sense to now do this all at once" But... then why did he post the first note with no mention of the others. He didn't know? He had no idea three of his key people including the Chief Technology Officer were going to quit within hours of each other...?

I asked Sora for 3 Navy SEALs infiltrating a port. Close enough

If OpenAI is right on the verge of AGI, why do prominent people keep leaving?

Anthropic missing $ millions by not having a button that says, "buy more messages"

Would you use X as your main email, with a @x.com email address? 👀

GPT-4V vision jailbreak confirmed using PENGUIN. Fascinating! 🐧 (interesting details in comments)

Starlink essentially leap-frogging all internet and cell providers is a huge coup. Almost everybody was skeptical of Starlink a few years ago and it was panned as a dead-end vanity project with low chance of profitability. Now it's poised to be Earth's everything network.

No. No no no no. Stop. This contributes nothing to humanity.

This is the Family Guy Italian meme but Japan 😄

If Doom never happened, no Quake. If Quake never happened, no GPUs. If no GPUs, the AI revolution doesn't happen. (This is of course a slight exaggeration but it's interesting to think about.....)

It is noteworthy that Microsoft is essentially nowhere in the current AI conversation.

OpenAI just shot Rabbit in the face.

What did Ilya Karpathy Logan Jan allllll see?

If you walked through a Best Buy a decade ago and today, there isn't actually much difference in tech The iPhones still look the same, the drones are about the same, the flat screen TVs are a bit bigger But there is no OH WOW! technology for sale that didn't exist 10yrs ago

Please stop sharing "AI enhanced" or "AI upscaled" images of the blurry FBI shooter photo. It literally made up a face. This does not help find the actual suspect. To fill in missing data, AI algorithms are guessing. Example:

I have no idea who the CEO of Anthropic is because he / she isn't constantly giving media interviews bragging about how amazing they are They just go to work and ship like it's their job. Weird.

Don't even scrub it, just run it. This goes hard.

This is so scammy.

"Grok doesn't do code hurrr durrrrrrr" Yeah, okay buddy. Skill issue or you literally didn't try. Here's Grok-written pong game, player vs computer. Took a couple minutes to make. 100% Grok 2 code.

So to do more capitalism we have to be more socialist Yeah pardon if I'm really skeptical of this plan

GPT-4 has become so @#$%@ lazy, it won't even output more than a handful of code lines now: Fix. This.

By the the way, the answer is: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B model requires around 74 GB of VRAM, which can be achieved using four NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs. At current prices, RTX 4090 cards range from $1,800 to $3,100 each, bringing the total cost for four GPUs to approximately $7,200–$12,400, depending on the retailer and model.

This is an actual code output ChatGPT-4 just gave me. FIX. THIS. ALREADY.