WTF is happening at xAI | Sulaiman Ghori

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  @ti_morse · 8 months ago · pinned

  Timestamps:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=41">0:41</a> WTF is happening at xAI<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=106">1:46</a> Predicting future bottlenecks<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=185">3:05</a> Shredding conventional timelines<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=263">4:23</a> Experience joining xAI<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=563">9:23</a> Bootstrapping off the Tesla network<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=719">11:59</a> What is Macrohard<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=794">13:14</a> How Elon deals w fires<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=990">16:30</a> What it’s like working at xAI<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1233">20:33</a> Cybertruck bet with Elon<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1272">21:12</a> Using 80 mobile generators + battery packs to balance load at their data centers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1365">22:45</a> How they built Colossus in 122 days<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1415">23:35</a> Work backwards &amp; figure out the highest leverage thing you can be doing<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1551">25:51</a> How xAI hires<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1827">30:27</a> Challenging requirements <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1966">32:46</a> Experimentation<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2095">34:55</a> How Elon recalibrated his timeline estimates<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2355">39:15</a> AI engineers vs AI researchers<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2436">40:36</a> No one tells me ‘no’<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2529">42:09</a> Everyone’s an engineer<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2646">44:06</a> Why fuzziness between teams is an advantage <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2905">48:25</a> Testing human emulators as employees<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3000">50:00</a> Biggest blunders<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3203">53:23</a> What a meeting w Elon is like<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3262">54:22</a> How Elon gives feedback<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3404">56:44</a> Figuring out ‘what is truth’ for Grokipedia<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3561">59:21</a> What happens when Elon sees wrong Grok outputs on X<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3608">1:00:08</a> What a surge feels like &amp; operating in xAI’s war room<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3773">1:02:53</a> Making fidget spinners &amp; 3D printers in his bedroom <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=4128">1:08:48</a> Creating a liquid fuel rocket engine

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  @HansKoch · 8 months ago

  First and last interview with anyone at xAI

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  @tommy_zi284 · 8 months ago

  Fireside chat turned into actual firing…

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  @ZachMeador · 8 months ago

  this man thought that NDA was just vibes...

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  @CodyAvant · 8 months ago

  Lawyer: &quot;Don&apos;t say anything until I get there&quot;<br>Bro:

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  @jcub2x · 8 months ago

  who&apos;s here once they heard the news?

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  @thibaultlibat368 · 8 months ago

  This man sounds exactly like big head

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  @OceanBlicky · 8 months ago

  This was a great ‘FIRE’ side chat <br>Iykyk

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  @KeenyNewton · 7 months ago

  he vibe coded his way out of xAI

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  @ixmemo · 8 months ago (edited)

  for those who didn&apos;t or can&apos;t watch the full video here&apos;s the possible reasons for his termination:<br><br>While the video itself was published just before reports of his firing surfaced, several points he discussed likely contributed to his departure from xAI:<br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp;Leaking Unreleased Project Details: Ghori spoke extensively about &quot;Macro Hard&quot; and the &quot;human emulator&quot; project [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=604">10:04</a>]. He explicitly mentioned that xAI had not yet detailed these plans publicly [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=765">12:45</a>]. Discussing trade secrets and the strategic roadmap for a million-unit deployment is a major violation of typical Silicon Valley NDAs.<br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp;Revealing Internal Metrics &amp; Efficiency: He shared specific internal data, such as the company’s valuation of code commits, stating they estimate $2.5 million of value per commit [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=1600">26:40</a>]. Sharing internal financial/productivity metrics is often grounds for termination.<br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp;Disclosing &quot;War Room&quot; Logistics: He described the internal office environment in detail, including the fact that the team moved into the company gym to work because they outgrew their original war room [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=3657">01:00:57</a>], and mentioned internal &quot;virtual employees&quot; (AI agents) that report to him [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&amp;t=2982">49:42</a>].<br><br> &nbsp; &nbsp;Unauthorized Public Relations: Elon Musk generally prefers to control the &quot;reveal&quot; of new products (like the Tesla compute leasing idea) himself via X or official events. Ghori’s hour-long deep dive into the company’s &quot;secret sauce&quot; essentially front-ran Musk&apos;s own PR strategy.

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  @BoeyChar · 8 months ago

  How many NDAs did he violate just for this interview 😂

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  @RachmanBlakeLive · 8 months ago

  This is great man. Sick of hearing from the same founders. Let&apos;s hear from the people actually building the thing.

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