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There's no excuse left for not building in this era now!
There are free AI tools, everything is available on the internet to learn from, Google provides $300 of credits for you to deploy your project.
There's nothing stopping you apart from yourself!
Falcon 1 launch 1st attempt -> failed after 33 seconds
from liftoff
After 1 year, 2nd attempt -> failed after 450 seconds
After 1 year, 3rd attempt -> failed after 140 seconds
7 weeks later, 4th attempt -> successful launch into orbit and SpaceX won a $1.5B contract from NASA
GPUs which was designed for rendering game images became one of the foundations of modern AI.
Without it, we wouldn't have the AI we have today. Research in rendering game images led us to developing artificial superintelligence. Crazy when you think retrospectively.
A lot of people have asked how I got a job at a leading Bay Area AI lab. The short answer is pure luck. The long answer is that I showed up every day. I wrote blogs, launched multiple projects, tweeted like there was no tomorrow, and built in public. Increased the surface area of my luck 100x
@Owl_of_Atena@cradrrat So easy to trigger Rust programmers ๐
Rust is a good language, but C is what you use for optimal performance on bare metal. With great power comes great responsibility.
We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.
Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.
Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.