'Not built right the first time' -- Musk's xAI is starting over again, again | TechCrunch
TechCrunch: “'xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up,' Musk said Thursday on his social media platform, X. By most measures, it isn't going all that smoothly. The most immediate pressure is competitive. This week, xAI co-founders Zihang Dai and Guodong Zhang left the outfit after Musk complained that the company's AI coding tools were not effectively competing with Claude Code or Codex, rival programming assistants made by Anthropic and OpenAI, respectively. Musk said the company held an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that focused on how to catch up, which he predicted would be possible by the middle of this year.” https://lnkd.in/ep6xfx6C One day, I will be able to use local, Open Source LLMs on my Banana(TM)-brand Laptophone, and while I may need to do in Chinese, it will be good to not be dependent on the quislings and moonbats that run this current phase of tech.
'Not built right the first time' -- Musk's xAI is starting over again, again | TechCrunch