Comment by wongarsu

xAI is an attempt by Elon to remain relevant and have a "woke" model that isn't moralizing him when he asks racist questions

OpenAI is Altman's attempt to use brand perception to con everyone into thinking they aren't loosing the lead on the field they pioneered, while hyping up investors that AGI is around the corner. And except for the hunt for AGI they have given up everything they originally stood for, leading to the mocking term ClosedAI

Llama would not be noteworthy if not for the fact that it's open weights

Gemini had an embarrassingly terrible start considering the amount of data and AI talent Google has at its disposal. Their recent models are pretty good, but their bad start combined with the cheap models they roll out to a wide consumer base still hurt their perception. Google's models are probably the first thing people think of when talking about bad AI

DeepSeek and Qwen are impressive but Chinese

You can find reasons for all of them why they are embarrassing places to work at. Yet people do work there. And judging from the results (both Grok3 and Grok4) xAI seems to do just fine on training data and attracting talent