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Who said it's easy? xAI staff are putting in 80+ hour weeks and building datacenters faster than anyone.

their entire founding team left recently for one. they are the weakest in mission and dont particularly pay much either

If their entire founding team left and now Grok has caught up to the frontier, that says more about the founding team than xAI.

When you cut regulatory corners, it does get easier to move quickly