I got blindsided the other day when I realized the guy who made all the “attack on titan historical footage” videos from like 5 years ago is the dude who directed the Backrooms.
making psychedelic footage in your movie more wild and effective by letting other filmmakers use their own separate style to do it is an incredible idea
xAI didn’t ship anything for six months as they cleaned house. Let go of the entire founding team, like Elon did in early Starlink days when they were struggling. Brought in SpaceX vets and Cursor team to pivot course. First model from the xAI/Cursor collab completely mogs the Pareto frontier. Training on Cursor data brought up the intelligence. Vertically integrating from model to compute brought down the cost.
At the IPO, it was a foregone conclusion that SpaceX lost the AI race. Investors breathed a sigh of relief when the Anthropic and Google deals were announced—at least they could monetize all that capex spent on GPUs somehow. IPO was a bailout for xAI they said.
Fast forward to today and the whole story is flipped. Grok 4.5’s intelligence is not mind-blowing. But its cost of intelligence is eye-opening. And most importantly, its trajectory since where we were six months ago—let’s just say you’re about to find out soon why Elon put in those 90-day terminate clauses on his data center leases.
"Whether it is the best remains to be seen, but I will never give up. Never.”
ok so basically Xai rented compute to anthropic and then distilled the model based off running their models for 2 months while integrating cursor as their harness? is that what jsut happened?
The year is 2040. We were promised flying cars and cybernetic augmentations. But the most cyberpunk thing going on is the outlaw repair shops that fix Super Nintendos and PS2s because all the gaming companies have either gone under or require a DNA sample to log into your account
i hooked up a rotary phone from the 1920s to an AI agent, that replies on a mechanical display
it’s like a dumbphone without distracting notifications
here’s how i built this w/ @cursor_ai
I have a slightly different view. There will be bad days. We will lose our peace. But the understanding that it is just a bad day, that all of it is temporary, and it is okay to feel an emotion and let it pass, instead of fighting with it, or rushing to overcome it, is a good place to reach.