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> How is a VSCode fork and an open weight LLM fine-tune worth $60B?

Corporate contracts. A lot of companies have signed onto Cursor. xAI has a pretty toxic brand with Elon and the nonconsensual sexual images scandal. xAI has a ton of compute and few corporate customers. Now they have a ton.

> One would think Elon would learn his lesson after overpaying for Twitter

I think he took over Twitter to control what people using it see and promote right wing viewpoints. To that end it’s been a wild success.

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> xAI has a ton of compute and few corporate customers. Now they have a ton.

For now, perhaps. I work with numerous companies who refuse to do business with his brands.


Yes, I think getting value for money here relies on a lot of corporate inertia. Which, to be honest, is usually a good bet.



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