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A secretive technology investment group that is a top backer of Elon Musk’s companies will close to external investors, after racking up such big gains that it is no longer dependent on outside financing.
Neuralink labeled itself in April as a “small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The announcement comes after FedScoop reported on the General Services Administration’s interest in the tool late last week.
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The Forward on MSNAntisemitic memes fail to disqualify Elon Musk’s ‘MechaHitler’ bot from Department of Defense contractGrok’s pro-Hitler ranting didn't disqualify it from a $200 million defense contract. With Pete Hegseth running the DoD, why would it?
The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flood.
Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.
Elon Musk is “living the dream and… living the meme,” but he may not be too fond of whatever jokes arise from his portrayal in Luca Guadagnino’s forthcoming OpenAI movie. (Yes, if you missed it, that’s a real thing.
Investments into xAI would help Grok better compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT by increasing capital toward research and development.