Comment by giancarlostoro
11 hours ago
You could, but Grok is pretty high up there, it might not be "#1" but its definitely up there with the giants, people seem to overlook it. Gemini has a similar problem, it was #1 once, and it seems like Google isn't hell bent on chasing #1 they just want to keep iterating over time, they know they just need it to be "good enough" and they'll keep having repeat customers.
If Elon REALLY wanted to do anything like that he would be better off poaching talent from competitors, less legal hell to go through.
No Grok is not 'up there'. Not by any stretch of the imagination is it anywhere close to anthropic or openai in any single domain whatsoever. Not even close to deepseek. It really isnt a good model. Their research team's talent is just not good, unfortunately.
If I was training a top-tier model, having a competitors’ weights feels like it would be an excellent refining tool. As a user I find cross-model iteration to be a huge power-tool, and presumably the boffins can zero in on areas of relative strength and weakness and work out which area they want massive amounts of synthetic data from.