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- 🤖 Elon open-sources Grok 2.5
🤖 Elon open-sources Grok 2.5
(with controversy included)
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🤖 Elon Musk open-sources Grok 2.5 (with controversy included)
🛒 Amazon’s reverse acquihire explained
📆 Upcoming SaaS events fueling the AI + AGI debates
The @xai Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source.
Grok 3 will be made open source in about 6 months.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
10:16 PM • Aug 23, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI released Grok 2.5’s model weights on Hugging Face while teasing Grok 3’s release soon.
🚨 Breaking News:
Elon Musk announced Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will follow in six months, controversy included.
⚡ Wire Simplified
xAI made Grok 2.5 free for developers on Hugging Face.
The license has “custom” terms that some call restrictive.
Grok has been caught making wild conspiracy statements before.
Musk promises Grok 3 will be open source soon.
Grok 4 is Musk’s “truth-seeking AI” but sometimes checks his own tweets.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Musk is mixing open-source freedom with controversy. Developers are excited, critics worried. Grok may be free, but still unpredictable.
🎤 Should controversial AIs like Grok still be open-sourced? |
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Amazon hired Adept’s founders and licensed its tech instead of buying the startup. Adept’s ex-CEO now runs Amazon’s AGI Lab.
🚨 Breaking News:
Amazon skipped acquiring Adept. It hired the brains and rented the tech. David Luan now leads Amazon’s new AGI Lab.
⚡ Wire Simplified
A reverse acquihire means hiring startup talent without buying the company.
Amazon hired Adept’s co-founder David Luan.
Luan wants to solve four big AI problems.
He believes only billion-dollar compute power can achieve this.
Amazon gets talent and tech without buying the startup outright.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Amazon took the talent, not the company. Luan gets massive computers, Amazon gets brains. Startups may need giants for AGI.
SaaS era: Tools for thought
AI era: Tools against thought— Andrew Reed (@andrew__reed)
3:09 AM • Aug 25, 2025
.@OpenAI confused users by masking models and auto-choosing.
Still, ChatGPT 5 Pro is very, very good. It delivers PhD-performance as promised.
— Alex Tabarrok (@ATabarrok)
5:53 PM • Aug 24, 2025
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