The updated Grok-build model (still the 0.5T one) is much better than before. It’s less lazy, more autonomous, and more accurate. We are still improving it on long-horizon tasks. Stay tuned and enjoy it in our beautiful TUI with new usage limits! 🚀
You can bitch and moan about high-skilled immigration all you want, but at the end of the day we have to give all the good jobs to foreigners. Otherwise we might someday get conquered by a foreign country, and then they’d give all the good jobs to foreigners.
@AndrewYNg I'm in favor of more policies that restore mobility to American talent and a welcoming back of the white-collar workforce purged over the last 20 years by systemic foreign labor hiring discrimination.
Both the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 and the additions to it in the early 90s need to be repealed.
So many examples of putting American citizens last in those pieces of legislation.
The art of lying with statistics:
1. Compare H-1B workers to the entire U.S. workforce to make the number look tiny to conceal sector specific-effects.
Then, when called out:
2. Compare heavily concentrated IT/tech H-1Bs to **every** STEM profession under the sun so the percentage magically shrinks.
@RepBethVanDuyne@SaraGonzalesTX@BlazeTV Thank you for the attention to this. The H1B (and other visas) have been a dream-killer for so many talented and qualified Americans.
@puredivorce@OurOwnNation They call it Knowledge Transfer. It's a huge money maker that is nothing more than targeting American teams for elimination.
https://t.co/MGwYoQ63SX
Yes, H-1B is a "federal program." But that doesn't mean a Governor can't do anything about it. Here's exactly what I'd do as Florida Governor to effectively end the H-1B scam and protect our workers, especially recent grads.
1. Use state contracts as leverage. There are 100,000 companies in Florida that rely on state contracts. As Governor, I'd mandate that any company receiving a state contract cannot use H-1B labor in Florida. Simple choice: do you want access to the billions Florida spends on everything from software to construction, *or* do you want to keep firing qualified Floridians for cheaper foreign workers? You can't have both. You can guess which choice companies like Amazon, Accenture, and FedEx will make.
2. Fine H-1Bs into oblivion. President Trump supports a $100,000 fine per H-1B worker imported. I'd double that in Florida and make it annual.
The H-1B program is not being used to hire the world's "best and brightest scientists and engineers." 72% of H-1B visas go to entry-level positions. Companies are importing cheap foreign labor from India for jobs like accounting, IT tech support, and financial analysis.
There are 7-Eleven locations in Florida that have imported H-1B workers from India while Americans are desperate for work and relying on taxpayer-funded welfare to survive.
Congress created the H-1B program in 1990 under the Immigration Act. I wish Congress would end it, but I'm not holding my breath.
As Governor, I'll never throw in the towel because something is a "federal issue." I'll use state contracts and annual fines to compel companies to ditch the H-1B scam and hire American workers again so they can earn a living, get married, start a family, and buy a home.