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PunchyHamsterlast Monday at 11:27 PM1 replyview on HN

> That genuinely looks like SpaceX having cornered some valuable compute.

That's nice way to say "invested in AI that turned out to be flop nobody wants to pay for so they are selling spare capacity"


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JumpCrisscrosslast Monday at 11:36 PM

> That's nice way to say "invested in AI that turned out to be flop nobody wants to pay for so they are selling spare capacity"

Both takes are true. xAI invested in capacity that was supposed to yield frontier-model-maker margins. Grok failed to generate enough interest. So now they're selling it.

That's absolutely a good business, in a way that's more certain than the frontier-model one. But it's also lower margin, which doesn't support the sort of valuation SpaceX is going for.

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