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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?

🔹 The biggest SaaS events happening soon—don’t miss out!

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?

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.

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