Musk rumored to acquire Cognition; leveraging Colossus compute for AGI race
ns123abc · x · 2026-08-20
The post presents a thesis on why Elon Musk should acquire AI coding company Cognition. It argues that while SpaceXAI leads with Colossus compute, it needs Cognition's top-tier algorithmic talent to solve scientific challenges in pre-training and RL for scaling models to 10T parameters. Cognition is reportedly raising at a $40B valuation. The discussion also references OpenAI's reasoning model breakthrough by a small Olympiad team.
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