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And he didn't really have to answer to any of those because he just made it as one guy.

Now he's going to have to abide by different rules working at OpenAI.

It's just a lot of FOMO and a lot of breakneck speed right now all throughout the industry, whether you're one person making something or you're an AI lab.

Yep.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's the dynamic in the whole AI industry right now.

It's just everyone's moving quickly.

The ideas are money.

And when one guy can kind of usurp the big labs in terms of the usefulness of actually consumer-facing AI agents, which is a problem they've been trying to solve for years, they're going to pay anything to hire him.

Yeah, that's so true.

I mean, it feels like we went through a wormhole yet again.

It's just crazy that SpaceX is operating Twitter, but...

Yes.

XAI has pretty much earned a reputation for being a place that doesn't abide by industry standard safety guidelines, which are already arguably maybe lower than they should be to begin with, and doesn't even abide by those.

And it's also earned a reputation as a place where people mostly do whatever Elon wants in order to be successful.

Sources have told me that, that that's kind of the way you survive at XAI is do what Elon wants and just kind of keep your mouth shut and

go quickly.

So that's led to some really disastrous consequences that have left a chunk of its workforce pretty dissatisfied with working there and ready and willing to jump ship.

Or if they do get fired via restructuring or laid off, they're not that upset about it.

And they're kind of like, yeah, this is kind of a

a shit show, pardon my French.