Comment by fooker

1 day ago

> It’s been said here before, but xAI isn’t really in the running to be on the leading edge of LLMs

As of yesterday, it is. Sure it’ll be surpassed at some point.

Even if the flimsy benchmark numbers are higher doesn't necessarily mean it's at the frontier, it might be that they're just willing to burn more cash to be at the top of the leaderboard. It also benefits from being the most recently trained, and therefore, most tuned for benchmarks.

  • Great, have you tried it ?

    I gave it my compiler research problem and it gave me a direction that not only worked, but required me to learn new math.

Fewer people want to use it. You need to have at least minimal trust in the company that creates an AI to consider using it.

  • Agreed.

    Whether it is better does not depend on whether people want to use it though.