Comment by ballon_monkey

17 days ago

How did grok 'fail' ? This is news to me.

By not succeeding? It's an also ran, a closed proprietary model which is behind Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and a a bunch of Chinese companies, how do you make money with a produce like that? (besides the absurd IPO of course...)

At least it didn't succeed yet. They should drop a model somewhere, beating something else in some use case, and maybe people would use.

My company has Claude. People were excited to use Claude. Absolutely no one, despite the option, considered a grok model.

  • For a lot of people, Grok is the first AI they got to use through Twitter. Grok does get quite a lot of usage, and isn't out of the game - coding tools aren't the only use case for AI.

    • these users are probably losing the company money.

      the failure is in converting regular people into actual ai product consumers. Companies are realising that the money is not in regular consumers but in enterprise and they are not considering grok as a serious alternative.

      if anything, the name, the branding and the x/twitter affiliation has hurt adoption from money makers rather than help it.

      so yes, people know it, but no one is willing to pay for it

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  • "my company doesn't use it so no one uses it" - typical out of touch HN commenter.