Both the perception and performance of Grok today vs 1 year ago are an order of magnitude better due to the team’s relentless ability to maintain and continue acceleration, even through major org changes from xAI to SpaceXAI.
Many would argue today would have looked impossible a year ago, and similarly the next 6 to 12 months will look just as different.
There is no other company in the world with this pace of improvement—or with the mission to understand the universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars.
1. We will keep accelerating. Our AI efforts are only 3 years old, vs 6 and 10 years old for Anthropic and OpenAI. If our second derivative remains strong, SpaceX will reach pole position in about 6 months.
2. Once you far exceed the caliber of intelligence needed for a class of tasks, additional intelligence is pointless. You don’t need (and it would be cruel to put) Newton-level intelligence in your toaster!
3. Hardware is hard. Bringing massive compute online rapidly is incredibly difficult. SpaceX has demonstrated exceptional ability in this regard and will only get better.