Impressive Intelligence vs. Cost for Grok 4.5
I think given terafab + the Tesla FSD team's expertise in making very efficient AI models, this advantage will only continue to compound
Elon Musk reveals the environmentalist viewpoint he says has become total madness
"There are 8 billion people on Earth and it would be better if there were none. I'm like, 'hey buddy, you can start with yourself. See if you really want to make a difference'"
"That's like a crazy viewpoint. That's like literally saying, let's genocide humanity. How can you say that with a straight face? That sounds like total madness"
"In the limit of environmentalism, it becomes like an ingrown toenail. A toenail's fine, but not if it's warped and ingrown. It's just gone too far"
"Humanity is not a blight on the face of the Earth"
"Even with climate change, life on Earth will still continue. The calamities Earth has suffered where life continued, gigantic meteorite impacts, super volcanoes, continents drifting all over the place"
"There've been times in Earth's past where it's been like a total snowball or absolutely sweltering hot. We had many extinction events, but life continued"
"We don't see the dinosaurs now, but they had a good run for 100 plus million years"
"Even if there's catastrophic climate change, life continues. It just may not be life as we know it. It may not be humans, it'll be something else"
"What we're talking about with climate change is not a threat to all life on Earth, but really maybe a threat to humans, a dislocation if low-lying countries end up underwater"
"Over time we need to move to a sustainable energy economy. We can't just keep taking billions of tons of carbon from deep underground and putting it in the atmosphere and expect nothing will happen forever"
"But we also don't need to be alarmist about it and super negative and massively disrupt people's lifestyles"
"People can continue to live a normal life. They shouldn't feel guilty about being human or having a stake. It's fine"
BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starship just got another lunar customer. Japan’s ispace will use SpaceX’s Starship for Moon cargo missions.
• ispace signed an agreement with SpaceX to secure 500 kg of payload capacity on Starship.
• First mission is targeted to launch as early as 2030 through ispace’s new Lunar Access Integration service.
• The service is designed to make it easier for companies, governments, and research organizations to send payloads to the Moon.
• Customers can fly payloads ranging from a few kilograms up to 500 kg on shared Starship missions.
“We are very pleased to be able to offer the new Lunar Access Integration service utilizing Starship’s payload space… High-capacity, relatively low-cost lunar transport… is essential to realizing the sustainable lunar economy that ispace aims to create.”
— ispace Founder & CEO Takeshi Hakamada
Rate of improvement is accelerating.
Users should notice a meaningful improvement in the usefulness of the Grok Build harness with our V9 foundation model (aka Grok 4.5) every week.