[nkohari]

By "reached into his own pocket," you mean he leveraged engineering resources from Twitter, and then once it became clear that Grok wasn't a competitive model, raised $6,000,000,000 in capital from VCs and sovereign wealth funds [1] to pay for the additional compute necessary?

[1] https://x.ai/blog/series-b

[logicchains]

If six billion dollars is all it takes to build a competitor, OpenAI doesn't deserve a 100 billion+ valuation.

[rchaud]

Really stretching the definition of "competitor" here.