Scoble says AI moat is users: OpenAI's 1B vs xAI's 300M, critics push back
anActualCitizen · x · 2026-09-22
Scobleizer argues, citing his Microsoft days, that a product partly is its users: with 1B users at OpenAI vs 300M at xAI, the latter can hardly catch up without changing the game.
@anActualCitizen counters that user prompts don't generate new information, and native X data may be far more valuable for training than user-model interactions. The thread turns into a debate over whether AI moats come from user scale or data quality.
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