Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off
SpaceX's AI lab has had a chaotic year so far, churning through leaders and staff before bringing in outside help in an effort to catch up to Anthropic in coding.
It's fine to plagiarize the entire creative output of the open web, but it's unseemly to plagiarize the output of a fellow AI company. — It's like how mobsters don't steal from other mobsters. [embedded post]
Once again, Elon Musk is an idiot that can't build anything himself. When he said “xAI was built wrong” he means he's definitely not mad all the smart people walked out on him right before he ham fisted white genocide into the system prompt. — Now we're finding out he just dis…
Google just agreed to pay $900 million per month to Spacex for extra compute capacity. Google will pay a wild premium in the short term to not turn away enterprise clients due to lack of compute. This is temporary. Google will cancel this agreement as soon as their own capex [ima…
My first story for @theinformation is out! It examines xAI's relationship with Anthropic, including how xAI used Anthropic models to train its coding agent and took several steps to maintain access after Anthropic cut them off. Now Anthropic is paying xAI for compute. [image]