Farzad: Anthropic Wants Washington to Slow Open Models
Farzad posted Anthropic Wants Washington to Slow Open Models (Short) with a Full video reply to 5 AI CEOs Just Said the Same Thing, reposted Elon’s Grok 4.7-through-5 roadmap plus Grok 4.8 finishing training this week on the new C++ stack (Starlink-built pre-training; RL still legacy), reposted Elon’s confidence that SpaceX will launch Nvidia VR NLV72 AI computers in space next year, liked Gavin Baker’s “only tangible new fact” read on third-party evaluators, RTd Bill Ackman’s skeptic take on the Anthropic/OpenAI announcements, liked a one-month Grok Bot praise post, and quote-tweeted Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Walter Russell Mead conversation as even more must-listen amid the AI drama.
Anthropic Short + Full video
Farzad, Sep 14 morning CT: Anthropic Wants Washington to Slow Open Models (Short). Reply: Full video to YouTube 5 AI CEOs Just Said the Same Thing (id H0NNRZd_vK4; sponsor Rebellionaire on that long-form). Titles only; do not invent what the videos show beyond the titles.
Check the Short here. Full video reply here.
Grok roadmap + C++ training stack
Elon, Sep 14 morning CT: Grok 4.7 roughly on par with Opus 5.0, not 5.1 (better in some ways, worse in others; multimodal needs work); Grok 4.8 a noticeable improvement; Grok 4.9 probably Astra/Fable class; Grok 5 maybe better than anything — we shall see. Farzad reposted. Earlier Sep 13 evening CT Elon: Grok 4.8 is a 2.5T model trained with the new C++ software stack; will finish training this week and start RL. Farzad RTd. Sep 14 morning CT Elon: pre-training software is now the internally developed C/C++ stack, written primarily by the Starlink software team (best-in-industry take is Elon’s); reinforcement learning stack is still a legacy pile of third-party systems and isn’t fixed yet. Farzad RTd. Roadmap numbers and stack claims are Elon’s.
Check Grok 4.7–5 RT here. Elon here. Grok 4.8 2.5T RT here. Elon here. C++ stack RT here. Elon here.
SpaceX Nvidia AI computers in space
Elon, Sep 13 evening CT, replying to ryanfoxeth / Sawyer Merritt: highly confident SpaceX will be launching Nvidia VR NLV72 AI computers in space next year. Farzad reposted. Product name, next-year timing, and confidence are Elon’s — not a SpaceX filing.
Baker + Ackman on the Anthropic/OpenAI announcements
Gavin Baker, Sep 13 late morning CT: only tangible new fact from the prior 24 hours is OpenAI and Anthropic are going to have embedded 3rd-party evaluators (unknown orgs; Dario floating METR); no Section 230-style shield for model outputs; duty-of-care / litigation framing; summarizes Dario maximalist vs Elon peer-review / open-weight and Sacks pushback (per Baker’s post). Farzad liked. Bill Ackman, same window: A skeptic’s view of yesterday’s Anthropic / OpenAI announcement (quote-tweet of Grant Hummer — title only; do not invent the quoted tweet or an essay body). Farzad RTd. Baker’s summary and Ackman’s title are theirs; prior-day Dario/Sam/Elon/Sacks lines belong to those posts, not re-proven here.
Check Baker like here. Ackman RT here. Ackman here.
Grok Bot month-one + Mead podcast QT
mikepat711, Sep 13 evening CT: Grok Bot has passed its 1 month reign as the best AI platform I’ve ever used; asks Elon how 4.7 is looking. Farzad liked. Praise and “1 month” framing are mikepat711’s. Farzad, Sep 13 afternoon CT, quote-tweeting Patrick O’Shaughnessy / Walter Russell Mead conversation: one of the best podcasts ever; with the AI drama unfolding, even more important to make time for it. Podcast plug is Farzad’s; Mead conversation is O’Shaughnessy’s.
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