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I love how consistently none of us even vaguely consider Grok an actual player
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To Grok's credit I think it's fairly good as a creative writing tool because it can be very "spontaneous" and it naturally seems to use an informal style. It also lacks a lot of the words and phrasing Claude and OpenAI get hyper-fixated on.

IDK if this is emergent from being trained on an endless trough of Twitter shitposts but compared to how stiff the rest are, I consider it a feature. I wouldn't use it for anything important though, heh.

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Ah creative writing - the domain where AI is failing to actually generate any economic value while absolutely devastating the ways in which people have traditionally found artistic expression.
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The models might be good but the product design, user story, and marketing is so terrible that it’s difficult to see it as more than an also-ran
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Even that is kind tbh. The company is so poorly run and the leader so controversial that it makes it irresponsible to build anything serious that relies on their products. Other than the rocket part of the business, everything else under the SpaceX umbrella is a nonstarter.
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> The company is so poorly run

In what specific ways is the company very poorly run, say compared to a comparable outfit?

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It's so bizarrely run that it's hard to decide what counts as a "comparable outfit"? It's a Space company crammed together with several deeply unprofitable and embarrassing investment companies the founder bought as a part of a transparent grift to cover his mistakes and his only argument is a vague promise of "data centers in space", after over a decade of promising similarly ambitious things that have never happened.

Compared to the other AI companies? It's got even less revenue and product/branding decisions that have it fundamentally incompatible with any of the customers that would result in it becoming a leader.

Compared to other companies of similar revenue? That would be like... uh... Carnival Cruises? lol the fact that it has a valuation where it does is only due to corruption and politics. Oh, sorry Carnival Cruises had actual revenue last year, SpaceX was -$1.9B.

Maybe I'm just in my media bubble, care to share the experts out there explaining how it's a great company whose valuation makes any sort of sense?

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When I think about how well or poorly an organization is run, some of the signals I look at are:

a) ability to attract and retain talent

b) ability to grow the company

c) creativity and speed of execution

On these three fronts it seems like SpaceX is run pretty well, at least above average.

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Starlink arguably is not the rocket part and its the most profitable piece, it held together the rocket side of SpaceX and he expanded research and development.
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I would replace Gemini with DeepSeek. I also find OpenAI smarter than Claude but Claude is better for API ergonomics and frontend
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Why do you think OpenAI is the prettiest?

Claude often makes better looking interfaces and designs. And I think OpenAI has solved more open math/ stats/ CS problems.

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> And I think OpenAI has solved more open math/ stats/ CS problems.

Still surprises me that OpenAI seems to lead in this one weird niche, I wonder what causes GPT to be able to routinely pull this off, there was one instance where some random 18 year old broke some mathematical question without knowing more than high school math if I remember correctly, all because of GPT.

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> Claude often makes better looking interfaces and designs

How do you even qualify this? Either by "Well, when you're not specifying anything about it in the prompt" and then it almost doesn't matter at all, or by what actually goes into the prompt, then again it doesn't matter at all what model you use, more about the person driving it.

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Their text output often includes more emojis and seems formatted better. Also their image models subjectively looks better than the rest.
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They aren't talking about vision LLMs though. SAM and DINO are vision models, no LLM involved.
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Qwen: Zestiest

Nemo: Straightest

DeepSeek: Craftiest

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And, of course, Grok: Sir-not-appearing-in-this-listest
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Drunkleist?
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Muskiest
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It's hilarious to me that one man has so single handedly destroyed the concept of "musk" (the smell) being attractive.
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