Comment by jppope
4 days ago
Interested to see how it all works out. Elon has been using a lot of smoke and mirrors lately, but this seems like an area where they can genuinely make progress - with the right talent competing in the GenAi world is totally possible right now. sign me up for improvements in this space!
Area where they can make progress? Yeah sure, but that seems to imply that they're not doing great?!
Can you name an Elon company that is not number 1 globally in terms of product capabilities?
The only one I would've been able to name would've been Grok. Until yesterday.
The only one that is number one is SpaceX (and Starlink, if you count that separately).
None of the neuroscience people I follow think much of Neuralink; none of the civil engineers I've talked to IRL think much of TBC; none of the car people I follow favour Tesla over the huge range of competitors, and that includes the robo-taxi where they're about 6.5 years behind Waymo; X.com is so painful that whenever someone shares a link with me, I edit the URL to Xcancel.com *because that loads faster by a bigger margin than the time taken to edit the URL* and actually shows me the thread without needing an account of my own.
But the space nerds I follow are still impressed with SpaceX, and they have extremely obvious reasons to be impressed.