Nathaniel Whittemore

Last month, they hired a founding team member from Mistral who had since left to join Thinking Machines Lab.

As always, the Elon Rorschach test is alive and well, with people who like Elon seeing this as a fearsome combination that would put XAI in a central role, and others being skeptical of whether this is enough to really get back in the game.

Nothing is confirmed at the moment, so for now, it's really all just about speculating what the team-up might be called.

Satho writes Grokstral?

Le Grok?

That, however, is going to do it for the headlines.

Next up, the main episode.

All right, folks, quick pause.

Here's the uncomfortable truth.

If your enterprise AI strategy is we bought some tools, you don't actually have a strategy.

KPMG took the harder route and became their own client zero.

They embedded AI and agents across the enterprise, how work gets done, how teams collaborate, how decisions move, not as a tech initiative, but as a total operating model shift.

And here's the real unlock.

That shift raised the ceiling on what people could do.

Humans stayed firmly at the center while AI reduced friction, surfaced insight, and accelerated momentum.

The outcome was a more capable, more empowered workforce.

If you want to understand what that actually looks like in the real world, go to www.kpmg.us.ai.

That's www.kpmg.us.ai.

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