Tesla, Grok & SpaceX will be a sovereign nation and dominate AI in 5 to 10 years.
Probably as the first single Ultra-Corporation with its own Moonbase and sovereign territories, possibly Texas on Earth.
It will become the first corporation born nation in the solar system.
Sure, people won't like that and may will doubt it.. but I think it's possible if not likely.
π When SpaceX announced the Anthropic deal, signing over basically all of Colossus compute, many of us , myself included, thought Grok was taking a backseat to Frontier Models.
The narrative wrote itself.
SpaceX was pivoting. xAI was conceding. The compute wars had a winner.
But... this is Elon Musk.
And Elon never thinks small.
Look at Terafab. Look at his Moon plans. Look at his Mars plan.
This is a man who builds reusable rockets, electric vehicles, brain interfaces, satellite internet, and AI models, IN PARALLEL. Not as side projects. As industries he reinvents from first principles.
There is lots of hate on Elon. Endless hate.
But the truth?
It's envy. More than anything else, it's envy.
No single human alive can claim to have impacted technological progress on a global scale , the complete disruption and (re)invention of multiple industries simultaneously , like Elon has.
Not Jobs. Not Gates. Not Bezos.
So maybe... just maybe... he's going to do BOTH.
Build frontier AI AND become the leading global Hyperscaler.
Because that's what Elon does. He doesn't pick lanes. He builds the highway.
How big do you think Terafab actually gets?
π Aragorn Meulendijks | Innovation Network
Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come.
Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release.
This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.