> 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.
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.