Techmeme Ride Home Thu. 07/10 – Grok 4
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Jul 10, 2025 Grok 4 and its advanced capabilities make waves in the tech world. An insider reveals why Meta is lagging in the AI race, amidst juicy insights on talent wars. OpenAI's upcoming AI browser is set to disrupt the web experience, taking on Google. The chat also covers the financial strain from rising energy costs tied to AI demands, raising eyebrows about what consumers can blame for their bills.
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Grok4: Musk's Advanced AI
- Grok4 is Elon Musk's most advanced AI, trained on the Colossus supercomputer with superior reasoning and multimodal features.
- It aims to rival GPT-4 and Anthropic Cloud 4 with advanced reasoning, voice, coding, and meme understanding capabilities.
Meta's AI Culture Crisis
- An outgoing Meta AI researcher described the company culture as a "metastatic cancer" of fear, infighting, and burnout.
- Despite big hires and pay, lack of vision and toxic culture have stymied Meta's AI progress.
OpenAI Eyes AI Browser Battle
- OpenAI plans to launch an AI-powered browser to change web browsing and challenge Google's Chrome dominance.
- The browser will integrate chat-like interactions to keep users engaged without leaving the interface.