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What’s the point of Elon Musk’s AI company?


And why does one of the world’s richest men need outside funding for this, anyway?

Its clearest distinguishing feature is that it uses X (Twitter) data as real-time input, letting it serve as kind of opera glasses for platform drama. The Discover / Trends section of the X (Twitter) app is being internally reworked to feature Grok’s summaries of the news, according to a person familiar with the development. It doesn’t have a specialized purpose; Grok is an also-ran LLM, and it’s meant to bolster an existing product: X. xAI isn’t pitching an AI-native application, it’s mostly just saying, “Hey, look at OpenAI.”

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