Grok 4.5, based on our 1.5T V9 foundation model, with Cursor data added in supplemental training, is now in private beta at SpaceX & Tesla. Early evals show performance close to, perhaps exceeding Opus.
RL is continuing to significantly improve the model, and the Grok Build harness gets better every day.
Nice work by all those involved!
Completely trained from scratch new models will be released by @SpaceX every month this year.
White people are terrified of being seen as racist.
If white guilt permeates the online world and our schools, then our adults will feel guilty too.
This helps neither whites nor ethnics.
My ARC speech:
As soon as the Greek Revolution of 1821 broke out, the Muslim Turks, in their efforts to intimidate the rebels, butchered those they captured or threw them to the ground and slaughtered them like animals. In some cases, they exceeded the bounds of brutality.
In Patras, they captured a father and son, impaled them, lit a fire, and forced the other captives to roast them like lambs. Ali Pasha, in this regard, was more inventive: when he impaled Christians, he forced their relatives to turn the spit, threatening that if they refused, he would impale them as well.
Immediately after the hanging of Patriarch Gregory V in Constantinople, the Turks also hanged three metropolitans in various parts of the city. However, one of them, the very elderly Metropolitan of Nicomedia, breathed his last before reaching the place of execution.
After the hanging of the Patriarch, the Turks engaged daily in massacres of Christians who were trying to escape from the City. Then the Sultan sent a firman to the Patriarchate prohibiting the departure of Christians from Constantinople, making them collectively responsible in groups of five. This meant that if one from a group of five escaped, the remaining four would pay with their lives. Thus, the Greeks had to choose between the very likely massacre if they stayed, or the certain massacre if one of the five managed to escape.
The revolution in Macedonia was drowned in an ocean of blood. Five thousand Greeks were slaughtered in Naousa, the rest were sold in slave markets, and the entire city was turned to ashes. The Pasha of Thessaloniki, Abdul Abud, who had set as his goal the annihilation of the Greeks, burned 120 villages and exterminated their inhabitants.
Among the leaders of the Revolution, Zafeirakis was killed in Veroia, Gatsos and Karatasos escaped, while the fate of their wives was harsh; with horrific threats, Abdul Abud sought to force them to convert to Islam. They refused. The two wives were tortured to death in front of the governor's mansion. They were placed up to their necks in sacks filled with mice and cats, and the wife of Karatasos, before expiring, in a sack filled with snakes.
@the_jefferymead Deep dive into Don Lemon’s participation on the church “protest”.
It was orchestrated and they waited for him to arrive before they started.
I couldn't make it to Davos this year, but I'm delighted to see that my message has. Here's an enlightening exchange between two of the most successful businessmen in the world, Jensen Huang and Larry Fink, regarding the impact of AI on skilled labor. I watched it lie this morning, as I waited for the coffee to kick in. https://t.co/vpxLETDQkK The entire clip is 30 minutes, but I've attached a short clip wherein Jensen, the CEO at NVDIA, talks about "the greatest infrastructure project in the history of mankind," and the opportunities for those entering the skilled trades today.
Obviously, our workforce is nowhere near ready for what's coming. In fact, we're not ready for what's already here. We're going to need to dramatically rethink the way we train the men and women who will build the infrastructure in question, and the speed with which we do so. I'm heartened and encouraged to see Silicon Valley at the table, along with the current administration, who seems determined to reinvigorate the skilled trades by whatever means necessary.
At this point, it's only a matter of national security...
What we pursue is the rebirth of the Greek ideal, the quest for immortality.
Not by living forever, but by doing something so epic that it will be remembered for eternity.