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I have a very hard time understanding the business case for xAI/Grok. It is supposedly worth $200 billion (at least by Silicon Valley math), putting it in the company of OpenAI and Anthropic, but like...Who is using it? What is it good for? Is it making a single dollar in revenue? Or is the whole thing just "omg Elon!!" hype similar to most of his other endeavors?


Only use I've seen is people replying to basically every post on twitter with "@grok explain this", so likely the latter.


> Or is the whole thing just "omg Elon!!" hype similar to most of his other endeavors?

Yes, but combined with "omg AI" (which happened elsewhere; for instance, see the hype over OpenAI Sora, which is clearly useless except as a toy), so extra-hype-y.




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