Think you are forgetting the part where they are run by Elon, the greatest capitalist currently alive…
AND have had the fastest rate of innovation by far.
Also, trust me, if they could go from inception to a SOTA model in under 24 months… they can figure out how to release an API🤣I don’t think investors are too worried about that
one interesting way to improve performance on coding w/LLMs is to have it generate 3-5 responses at same time then have another model review it's answers and select best one (or ideally be able to test all it's solutions in parallel somehow and choose the one that works)
i find myself doing this already when solving bugs
i'll open 3 grok windows w/think mode, 2 o3-mini-high windows, 2 o1-pro windows and paste the file and context in all of them
oftentimes 2-3 out of the 7 will solve the issue and the other ones won't
You know who the best managers are? They’re the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as them.
- Steve Jobs