No, what Elon can do(and is indeed doing) is to take out loans at a fantastic rate.

No need to sell anything.

Not “everyone”, it was clear to many that Amazon was continuously reinvesting into the business for perpetual growth.

SpaceX has a tiny revenue compared to its market cap.

No, “mobile generators” are not constantly powered at one location.

Typically they are unused in storage and brought to location without power. It could be a warehouse with sensitive equipment (freezers etc), a hospital in need of extra power etc.

This is clearly a case of abuse and people should go to jail for wrecking the planet.

I work in the energy sector and I’ve done routine maintenance on backup generators, including work on the diesel engines.

That have been there since Sep 2024

https://naturalgasintel.com/news/data-centers-going-off-grid...

And how long is “temporary”?

They are normally used during power outages or during construction(days, not weeks).

That is knowledge internal to xAI.

So you’re only guessing it’s temporary then.

You think Elon Musk would be stupid enough to give away control? He still has >80% of the vote.

No. I think people who seriously took part i SpaceX IPO just bought a very expensive lottery ticket, while pretending that it's "being an SpaceX shareholder".

But it's fun to gamble (a bit) ! My personal limit for lottery ticket is 2€. I hope not too many people invested more than that.

And to be fair, SpaceX is probably the one thing for which Elon deserves the most praise.

There is a universe in which he has not been distracted into madness by twitter (and maybe kept Mrs Riley at his side.)

For all I know, we're already on Mars in this timeline.

the olden days overlords at least had some class.

Today they’ll be drinking monsters in their sweatpants, alone probably

Why would it have to be mediocre?

Both Netherlands and Sweden produce highly competent researchers. Per capita on par with any other location on the planet, including California.

This will be good for Europe as a whole and also the planet.

>and also the planet.

What a glorious day for Canada and, therefore, the world.

I don’t think it’s good that the USA has so much influence due to their dominance in information technology.

It was only nominally democratic, now it’s a total shit show.

Yes, the current administration has been in power for less than two years so obviously the “day to day life” hasn’t changed much for the average American (except everything has gotten more expensive).

The US is no longer looked at as a superpower, it just surrendered to a regional power and will pay $300B USD in tribute.

But for Trump and his cronies life certainly has improved.

But the damage is done and we are witnessing the decline and destruction of the worlds greatest Empire of all time.

Nitpick: it’s 6 years.

The Republican Party looked very different during Trumps first term

The us stopped being looked at as a superpower as a brain rotted Alzheimer’s patients president rose to power on the campaign “don’t let Trump win” and then did little productive except stoke wars and pardon his son and his friends from crimes.

I’m assuming you’re talking about Biden, and no, not really. Still considered a superpower.

Up until the second Trump presidency, most of us outside the USA had basically the same opinion as we had before. Pretty messed up politics , but strong economy and strong military.

The first minor dip was with Trumps first presidency. But shit went downhill fast with his second, unfettered reign when MAGA took total control over the Republican Party.

Now it is 110% clear that the American Dream is dead and buried, except for the well connected wealthy, and your military was state of the art, two decades ago.

The 21st century belongs to China and Europe.

Producing local researchers isn’t enough. If you want a competitive model you need to bring the best researchers from all over the world. That means lots of investment that hasn’t been common in Europe.

But it's a start

Sure, but there is still a more dense talent pool with SV companies, and training frontier models requires massive amounts of capital. Are Netherlands and Sweden prepared to invest 10s of billions?

My impression is the talent pool for core model development in SV isn't huge and is already grabbed by the usual suspects. Everyone else sloshing in the vague broader AIsphere are application bros whose value in the supply chain is minimal.

Honestly I have a strong suspicion that “the talent pool” will shift towards Europe and China and I believe it’s already happening.

And yes, I do believe Europe will invest in this technology.

You missed the part where they got 13 million EUR , 3 years ago! and dont have a release yet....Definitely doing it at European pace...they will have release two when AGI is around...

hackers used to be a large percentage of software engineers and are indeed intelligent people with an open mind.

However since ~2005 their percentage of the total has gone from ~25% to <1% as computers became less of a hobby and a way to make money.

Out of touch with whom? Not with the people who put them there.

Most people don’t dream of having obscene amounts of money.

No it’s not.

I flew from Zürich to Bangalore via Qatar and both flights had starlink.

There are many many uses for it, besides rural homes.

Yeah i'm no fan of Elon but starlink is actually quite useful. It solves a real problem - I need network access anywhere on the globe, for any reason, at any time. they can easily charge what they wish for that (military, air travel, desert tourists etc.)