Why Can't xAI Build a Frontier Model? Users Debate

A user asked why Elon Musk's xAI has failed to produce a top-tier frontier model despite his reputation. Robert Scoble argued that OpenAI's 1 billion users versus xAI's 300 million make the gap hard to close, though some questioned whether user queries even count as training data.

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