alt Hacker NewsBad read on the situation. xAI has too much compute and not enough customers using it. They have around half a million GPUs, some of which are stolen from Tesla, running at 11% utilization. xAI predicted more people would be using Grok, but Grok is not a SOTA model & users primarily want to use SOTA models. They have excess capacity and it makes sense to rent out GPUs to other customers while they improve their models.
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Why are they selling compute instead of using it to build that SOTA model?
It is a race that has a flywheel effect.
Once xAI training team “fix” their model, where will Anthropic be then?
More people should try Grok. I don't use it for coding but it's replaced a lot of my ChatGPT usage. Definitely more perferred model for quick questions or easy answers.
It's not stolen if it was taken from Tesla, investors already agreed that Elon can do anything he pleases with their money.
Grok is also tuned to align with Musk's personal beliefs. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.