I left xAI yesterday. It was a pretty cool way to spend the past 20 months, would recommend π
At xAI, you can just do things. We built the first version of Grok .com in a meeting room over two late nights. From there I got to build the product experience for thinking + tool use, inline render cards, multi-agent, Grok Computer, and everything in between. Plus a few things I can't quite talk about yet π
There was always so much cool stuff to do that youβd just follow a project wherever it took you in the stack. And if you didnβt know that part yet, you learned it and kept moving. Truly a peak experience to work w cracked teammates who simply try the hard thing instead of handwringing over why it can't be done
Next up for me: touching some grass for a bit. So long, and thanks for all the fish π¬
Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.
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