xAI Acquires X
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2156237/xai-acquires-x
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> Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale. X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth and, in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth.
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> xAI and X's futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI's advanced AI capability and expertise with X's massive reach. The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn't just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.
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> I would like to recognize the hardcore dedication of everyone at xAI and X that has brought us to this point. This is just the beginning. Thank you for your continued partnership and support.
[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312
Hilarious! Ground truth?! (Score:2)
Just ridiculous calling a social media platform full of subjective opinions and regurgitated half truths and rumour "ground truth", dilusional at best!
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ground truths are simply a basis for training, they are the "knowns". Ground truths do not have to be true, they can be outright lies. It doesn't matter that an AI treats lies as ground truths, it only matters that you assume that they don't.
What in the financial shennanigans? (Score:1)
I'm sure Saudi Arabia and all those people that actually gave Rat the money to buy Twitter are glad their share just dropped precipitously.
Re: What in the financial shennanigans? (Score:2)
This was probably a financial shenanigan that allowed him to pay them off by diverting venture capital money that was supposed to go to creating an AI company.
Grok AI (Score:2)
Even his own AI says Elon does nothing but spread misinformation. [1]https://www.latintimes.com/mus... [latintimes.com]
[1] https://www.latintimes.com/musk-tried-censoring-his-ai-chatbot-after-being-labeled-top-misinformation-spreader-i-stick-579331
It makes sense (Score:2)
The propaganda tool is getting an upgrade, might as well combine the two entities involved. Musk also gets to buy it well over its worth to pump up the official value for his ego's sake.
We have to start containing social media within national boundaries, make it difficult for the average person to access across borders and at least make the agitprop campaigns require some effort to insert and control content.
Slow news day. (Score:2)
Anyway, good luck with that.
TWTR stock delisted (Score:2)
It probably irked Elon that the X stock ticker still referenced Twitter by using TWTR. Now that's retired. It will also make Twitter look more successful than it is, by hiding its relatively lacklustre performance within that of xAI.
Only so Musk can cash out Twitter in the black (Score:2)
Clearly a way for Musk to get out of his disastrous Twitter investment. He grossly overpaid for Twitter, super underwater. He can pretend that xAI is worth 80 billion based on some bulls--t latest round of investment. Twitter is 'bought' with the fake xAI stock, and then Musk is able to divest his money during this peak AI frenzy...and later whoever has xAI investments takes the losses. Take that Delaware Chancery court.
Super bonus that apparently financial fraud is fine if you ass-kiss the president
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No, and so?
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"Musk is he/his and by saying "Elon Musk says its" you are misgendering him"
His self-stated pronouns are "He/Himmler" and "Prosecute/Fauci"
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I'm sure she'll be fine.