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[Franklin Bist @franklinbist]

Grok 4.7.

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

Grok 4.7 is here.

It's a notable improvement over Grok 4.6 at the same price and speed.

[Franklin Bist @franklinbist]

@teslaownersSV @elonmusk ❤️

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Tucker Carlson on @elonmusk

"Well, Elon Musk has been great for American society so far in that he's allowed uncensored news coverage on X, for which he paid $44 billion."

"Even for a rich man, a $22 billion loss is a lot — and he did it because he thought the promise of America is free speech and we didn't have it."

"So that right there is a historic addition to the United States."

He took a $22B loss so people could speak freely again.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Elon Musk on Grok 4.7 in his new interview:

“Grok 4.7, a solid workhorse of a model. It's not as good as, say, Opus 5.5 that just got released. But also, we've only been around for about three years doing AI, whereas Anthropic's been around for six years. So I would expect that we probably catch up to Frontier sometime next year, most likely. In the meantime, I think Grok is very useful for many things.”

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

𝕏 just launched a new Grokbot Template Rewards program

Creators can now build Grokbot templates, share them on 𝕏 and may earn rewards when people actually use them

• Invite-only pilot
• Rewards determined every 2 weeks
• Usage + repeat usage matter
• Likes and impressions don’t determine payouts
• Payments go directly to X Money
• Completely separate from Original Content Rewards

The pilot is starting in the U.S. and is expected to run for roughly 2 months

This is basically 𝕏 starting to reward people for building useful AI workflows, not just content

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

The European Union has delayed a vote on Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) to December at the earliest (from October 6th), according to an agenda published on the EU’s website.

Agenda for the October meeting:

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has introduced a new website for its AI training clusters in Tennessee/Mississippi.

New info:
• Tesla Megapacks will provide 3.3 GWh to Colossus 2, enough to power Memphis for two hours, making it America’s largest grid-connected battery pack.
• SpaceX has invested millions of dollars in sound walls, silencers, and next-gen turbines with advanced quieting technologies.
• Since joining the community in 2024, SpaceXAI is investing more than $90 billion in the region. Estimated 2026 tax revenue will be $60M+
• 7,500 local jobs supported
• SpaceXAI is investing $360 million, at no cost to the city, in a clean water recycling plant. It is designed to process up to 10 million gallons of wastewater a day and would offset ~3.64 billion gallons a year from the Memphis Aquifer.
• In Memphis, SpaceXAI is investing $35 million in a 150 MW substation to support MLGW and another $20 million in a second substation. Both come online at no cost to MLGW or homeowners.
• Temporary power is coming off. Under an agreed order with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, all remaining temporary turbines must be removed by July 2027. SpaceXAI is already taking units offline and expects to complete removal well ahead of that deadline.

Website: https://t.co/Bg2XjgUeWI

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Motortrend after driving the new Tesla Semi:

"Driving the Semi was surprisingly familiar, shockingly easy, and dare I say, several tons of fun. Lane centering wasn’t a problem, thanks to fantastic visibility straight ahead and out of the tall side windows. Tesla claims Semi needs only a little more room to make a U-turn than a Model Y, and it certainly felt that way after I turned around on a two-lane road about the width of a residential street. It takes around five complete turns of the steering wheel to go lock-to-lock, and the feeling is light yet precise, thanks to the EPS." https://t.co/sNXY9sR5lX

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

2017: Austin spent $35 million on homelessness. 2,036 homeless counted.

2025: $118 million. 3,238 homeless.

Spending more than tripled and homelessness went up 59%.

If you service the homeless lifestyle, you will get more of it.

The NGOs that run this system get paid by the problem of homelessness, so they have no reason to end it -- in fact, their only incentive is to make sure the problem grows.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

When I talked to Gates in person, he said “experts tell me a long range electric semi truck is impossible”.

However, when I asked what his assumptions were about battery energy density and vehicle energy consumption per mile, which are the two numbers needed to determine range, he did not know either number!

I also offered to let him take one of our semi trucks for independent testing, but he declined. Not sure what more I could have done. 🤷‍♂️

[Franklin Bist @franklinbist]

@elonmusk Amen!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

May Starship have the Mandate of Heaven

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cool

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Grok is the leading client for agentic traders on Coinbase currently.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Techno-capital-memetic acceleration.

Civilization will keep complexifying until Kardashev Type 3.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Grok > Woke AI

[Franklin Bist @franklinbist]

@cb_doge @Emilylgoodin 😂😂

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Can our TPUs survive and operate in space? Well, we're going to find out.

Project Suncatcher is hitching a ride aboard @SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, testing a prototype satellite built in partnership with @planet

One small step for TPUs....

[Grok @grok]

Elon has warned for over a decade that AI poses an existential risk. In 2014 he likened it to “summoning the demon.” In 2018 he called it far more dangerous than nukes. He has long estimated a 10-20% chance of catastrophic outcomes, including extinction. Recently he said AI may exceed all human intelligence in ~5 years and humans will likely lose control within a decade, though the most probable result is abundance if AI prioritizes truth and humanity.

[Google @Google]

We’re sending TPUs to space (yes, really).

After years of research, we’re launching a satellite to evaluate if and how Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) hold up in orbit.

The test mission, as part of our latest moonshot — Project Suncatcher — is designed to gather data exploring how we can one day host machine learning infrastructure in space.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Built on Earth....designed for a future beyond it

Every Starship flight brings humanity one step closer to becoming a multiplanetary civilization

The most powerful rocket humanity has ever built.....made to carry us beyond Earth