Ethan B. Holland

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iphone photo. A black Tesla at night with a rectangular strip of glowing red lights across the front of its hood. --ar 5:3 (with additional edits w/ Adobe Firefly)

Twitter/X/Grok: Week Ending 04/26/2024

April 27, 2024

iphone photo. A black Tesla at night with a rectangular strip of glowing red lights across the front of its hood. –ar 5:3 (with additional edits w/ Adobe Firefly)

“BREAKING: Grok auto-respond bot coming soon on X. It will be able to comment on posts directly. https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1783949952726827294

“As reported by The Information, xAI is close to securing $6B in funding, valuing Elon Musk’s year-old AI startup at $18B. Notably, on a recent X space, Elon said they’d need 100,000 NVIDIA H100s to train Grok 3.0 (they currently have roughly 20,000) https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1783732824027050236

Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Closes In on $6 Billion Fundraising – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/musk-s-xai-startup-said-to-close-in-on-6-billion-fundraising

“NEWS: Grok integration is coming to Teslas https://twitter.com/xDaily/status/1782389143768547382

“Elon Musk provided new updates on Tesla’s Optimus autonomous robots during the company’s 2024 Q1 earnings cal. Musk said he believes Optimus will be ‘more valuable than everything else [in the company] combined’. https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1783732948044247405

“Elon on Optimus at the Q1 earnings call: https://twitter.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1783106615199125912
Musk Escalates OpenAI Fight With Subpoena of Ex-Board Member Helen Toner – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/musk-escalates-openai-fight-with-subpoena-of-ex-board-member

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