Good question. You can actually see the searches it runs (momentarily) so testing could determine if it's using public search engines or a private system.

I find that too. I use Claude for coding but when I need to dig out something based on limited data I turn to Grok and it delivers.

In the article, it states that the two deals will cover the entire cost of SpaceX's AI buildout in 18 months. OpenAI and Anthropic would kill for that kind of cashflow.

Also, SpaceX is a rocket and communications company with a secondary AI play, where Anthropic and OpenAI are pure AI companies.

And it is far and away the world leader in satellite launch capacity and satellite internet.

Does that justify the massive valuation? Probably not. But it's a factor.

If you sum the valuations of the company from its individual parts, no one sane would value it more than half a billion. But look at TSLA a P/E still at 370.

Who is the smart and who is the idiot?

The one who invested in it $40 or the one who was saying that even at $40 it was already too expensive?

And Google already had Google Video when they bought YouTube. They retired their own platform to go all in on the acquisition.

Money laundering.

that plus pump n dump/hype train investing.

Their regime is made up of hardline Shia Twelvers that believe that if they kill enough people the Twelfth Imam will appear and lead them to global victory.

Only problem is the Twelfth Imam has been dead for a thousand years.

They may not be stupid, but they consistently act based on counterfactual beliefs.

Mandy Rice-Davies Applies.

Yep. The IRGC runs the country at this point, and they do not have anyone else's best interests in mind.

That has been true throughout history.