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💡 Nextdoor’s Make-or-Break AI Pivot
Will their LAST HOPE Work?

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What we’ll cover today:
🔹 Musk’s Grok-3: OpenAI’s new rival or just hype?
🔹 Can AI save Nextdoor, or is it too late?
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, just dropped Grok-3, its most advanced AI model yet, aiming to shake up the AI world.
🚨 Breaking News:
Grok-3 is here! xAI’s latest flagship model promises better reasoning, faster responses, and even more sass than its predecessors.
⚡Wire Simplified:
Grok-3 is built on a new architecture with improved reasoning skills.
xAI is competing directly with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
Grok-3 will be available to premium X (Twitter) users.
Musk claims Grok-3 is more transparent and less "woke" than rival models.
xAI is training its models with its own data, including X posts.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Musk wants Grok-3 to rival GPT-4, but can it really disrupt OpenAI’s dominance, or is this just more Musk hype?
🎤 Will Grok-3 be a real competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4? |

Nextdoor, the neighborhood-focused social platform, is struggling, but co-founder Nirav Tolia believes AI can turn things around.
🚨 Breaking News:
Tolia is back, and he’s betting on AI-powered personalization to make Nextdoor more useful—and maybe even profitable.
⚡Wire Simplified:
Nextdoor has been struggling with engagement and revenue growth.
Tolia believes AI can improve user experience and local business engagement.
AI tools will curate local news, recommendations, and neighbor interactions.
The platform faces competition from Facebook Groups and local news apps.
Investors are watching closely to see if AI can revive Nextdoor’s fortunes.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Nextdoor is going all-in on AI, but will smarter recommendations and AI-driven content be enough to keep the platform relevant?

For all founders that are told you need to 5x or 10x in a year or any ridiculous number.
Just remember, Odoo scaled 50% every year for 20 years.
It is now a $650M ARR company worth $5BN.
Compounding is wonderful.
gpt4o rn is like if Sydney was way smarter, went to therapy for 100 years, and learned to vibe out

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