TIL: xAI burn rate

[timelets]

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is burning through $1 billion a month as the cost of building its advanced AI models

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/musk-s-xai-burning-through-1-billion-a-month-as-costs-pile-up

Comments

[timelets]

He's going to shove his opinions down everybody's throat for as long as he's in charge. He's done that when he bought twitter and he's doing it now.

[dmm]

On Twitter, not really. He tried a bit, mostly caused people to laugh at him (while being quite mad at him, and rightly so), and more or less stopped.

I am using Twitter all the time, and I don't see much traces of Musk (although a bit too much of his crowd, not in my feeds, but in those stupid "trending things" (I still have not figured out how to block politics and sport from "trending" words shown to me)).

[timelets]

He is a repeat offender. When he bought twitter he made engineers insert his tweets into millions of feeds. I, personally, had to block him, as did many other people. After seeing that users are blocking him, they tweaked the algorithms to promote feeds that engage with his tweets and demote those that don't. It's disgusting.

[dmm]

Elon's behavior is quite disgusting along multiple dimensions...

But this effect you are talking about was not pronounced enough for me to notice; I only knew about it because people were discussing that. My feeds were always free of all those people.

I am way more concerned about technical degradation of Twitter (and about the even more pronounced technical degradation of Facebook, and general enshittification of more-or-less everything, so that's not really all that Elon-specific)...