Musk Says Grok Bot Serving Costs Were Unsustainably High vs Revenue
Teknium · x · 2026-11-02
Teknium retweeted PaulGug, who explains reservations about going all-in on a cloud-hosted personal assistant: data privacy first, then cost sustainability, so he keeps control at arm's length and prefers Hermes as a front end that can plug into whatever 'brain' is most capable. The quoted Musk tweet says the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue.
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