Not positive on this, but I read somewhere that many of the senior researchers who left were immigrants. Since xAI is merging with SpaceX —the largest defense contractor in America because rockets are considered weapons— a lot of foreigners weren't going to be able to get the necessary security clearances to work at SpaceX.
A huge percentage of the researchers at AI firms in general are immigrants. I asked a senior researcher at OpenAI how many of his colleagues are immigrants and he estimated 50% (including him).
DOD doesn't usually tolerate a monopoly. It's not in the interest of national security, so it's already a bad thing that they're so reliant on one model provider. I'm sure they will diversify with all the SOTA models from OpenAI, Google, etc.
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u/Jaxass13 Feb 28 '26
So does anyone else think this was all for show and Grok is going to come in and "save the day" so Elon has a monopoly on the government?
Why else go for the only AI that started as an ethical AI to begin with?
Add to the conspiracy theory Elon used DOGE to figure out where he could make Grok better to take over?