Comment by sideshownz
19 hours ago
1. Cost to hire is now prohibitive. You're competing against companies like Meta paying tens of millions for top talent.
2. Cost to train is also prohibitive. Grok data centre has 200,000 H100 Graphics cards. Impossible for a startup to compete with this.
"Impossible for a startup to compete with this."
its funny to me since xAI literally the "youngest" in this space and recently made an Grok4 that surpass all frontier model
it literally not impossible
I mean, that's a startup backed by the richest man in the world who also was engaged with OpenAI in the beginning.
I assume startup here means the average one, that has a little bit less of funding and connections.
The richest man in the world, who could also divert the world's biggest GPU order from his other company
so is Meta(fb) and Apple but that doesn't seem to be the case
money is "less" important factor, I don't say they don't matters but much less than you would think
xAI isn’t young. The brand, maybe. Not the actual history / timeline. Tesla was working on AI long ago.
xAI was just spun out to raise more money / fix the x finance issues.
Most startups don't have Elon Musk's money.