Aditya Prerepa

@ramankhatri ur hella ripe

at the ripe age of 21 ive started getting into fruits

@JaimeAlns @xai bye 🐐

It’s one of those: today was my last day at @xAI. xAI has been a tremendous formative experience for me, building the API, Grok.com, and everything in between, it’s been crazy and hectic, but overall amazing. I’m especially grateful to everyone I’ve worked with, @TobyPhln and the team in London, you’re the most talented team I’ve ever worked with. I’ll be cheering from the sidelines, really excited to see what the xAI team is going to come up with next!

@imhaotian @lm_zheng @elonmusk who’s gonna use our gpus 😢 i loved working with you

I left xAI earlier this week. It was a difficult decision. The past two years have been an intense, fun, and deeply rewarding journey, and I accomplished things I could not have imagined two years ago. Thank you @elonmusk for the opportunity and for everything I learned at xAI. Thank you @Guodzh for the trust you placed in me and for all the days and late nights we worked through together. And thank you to the entire Omni / Imagine team: thank you for your trust, and for growing together with me. It has been an honor, and I am incredibly proud of what we achieved together. I feel fortunate to have had the chance to work with all of you. At xAI, everything feels possible. I had the chance to work with and learn from some of the most exceptional people I have ever met. I was able to explore across domains: from pretraining to post-training, from language models to multimodal, from perception to generation. Joining xAI was one of the best decisions I have ever made. @grok imagine is special to me. Building video generation models, where I started with almost zero prior knowledge, from 0 to No.1, as an IC and as a lead, alongside an extraordinary team, and shipping it as a great product used by millions, all within 6 months, at age 28: I feel proud. But now it’s time for me to move on. I’m burnt out, and I know my happiness is no longer maximized in my current state. It is sad to say goodbye, but it is just the right time for a change. Best wishes to the Imagine team, you are absolutely the best, and you deserve the best. I will cherish all our memories for the rest of my life. For now, I’m taking a break and giving myself time to figure out what comes next. Posted from Hawaii.

@Guodzh :(

Last day at xAI. Wild journey past three years but excited about next chapter. Thanks all for the love and support yesterday. So many friends made along the way and I will miss you all!

@TobyPhln @xai @elonmusk sad 😔thanks for whipping our production into shape

Three years, thousands of PRs, and a million jokes. Today was my last day @xai. To the team: you rock, no one burns the midnight oil better. To @elonmusk, thanks for taking me on board. I've learnt more about execution, speed, and product perfectionism than I could ever have imagined. Thanks for everything. My next priorities: sleep for more than 8h, write down all the things I've learnt (I have a list), and then think about what I want to do next. @gork wdyt?

@HeinrichKuttler stop going home early you have too much time to do things like read cc @lolpython to take action

pro tip: This Tolkien letter supplies great language for code reviews.

@ramankhatri we been knowing big dawg

im back in Virginia and when i went for a walk i slipped and fell 3 times in 60s I realized im genuinely not built for ts

@r_ahulravi @xai @Guodzh @archanfel_anoth :((

Today was my last day at @xAI. This was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made and i could not be more thankful to @Guodzh and @archanfel_anoth for bringing me in during the chaos of grok 3.5 sprint and the kickoff for v7. There are far too many people to mention but to all the collaborators, friends, and people I now call family I met along the way, I am grateful our paths have crossed and am excited to see the things you all accomplish. I look forward to a brief hiatus before beginning the next journey, ad astra!!

@VastoLorde95 @grok what does this mean / who does he think he is

how it feels working here some days

@imhaotian best user of the GPU

We spent the past three months polishing the model quality and optimizing the user experiences. Grok Imagine now produces more videos every day than all other companies combined and it ranks #1 on leaderboards! I’m extremely proud of what the team has achieved. We’re the best!

@HeinrichKuttler heiner you’re leaking IP (v4)

Yeah you got me diff

@typedfemale @HeinrichKuttler

x ai employees tweets follow the cult playbook of making members commit embarrassing and shameful acts so they feel like they can’t return to their prior life

@HeinrichKuttler @xai unc got sappy we love you too

it's cringe but I just love my @xai colleagues

@ramankhatri do we laugh?

i don’t call them california rolls any more, i just call them rolls. just a glimpse into how california my mind is becoming.

@lolpython @jonobelotti_IO @modal you’re a cornball🌽🏐

@jonobelotti_IO @modal Rookie numbers

GPUs are unreliable at scale. At @modal we've scaled to 20,000+ concurrent GPUs across AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI, with 1M+ instances launched. Public-cloud GPUs fail in many ways, and we’ve seen most of them. Here’s how we handle GPU reliability 👇

@HeinrichKuttler @ heiners wife

@HeinrichKuttler grok.com/imagine/post/e… he hates brown (squares)

I suggested we go to Palo Alto's Christmas tree lighting but the team felt I should become more American instead.

@HeinrichKuttler heiner is actually a great shot if you can believe it

@HeinrichKuttler @giffmana heiner not hate on kube for 5 min challenge difficulty level impossible cc @jonnylangefeld

@giffmana I used to complain about slurm. I was right, it is as bad as I thought. I no longer complain about slurm.

Yo what the heck?! Wasn't on my bingo card at all. Not sure what to make of it. I haven't been fan of slurm, and am really on the fence of whether this means improvements are coming, or the lock-in is slowly starting... Time will tell i guess!

@theVincentStark :( this is the saddest news, it was such a pleasure working with you. truly a class act.

For a bit more than a year at xAI, I’ve had the privilege and pleasure of working alongside the best engineers in the world on wild SOTA AI problems — building cool stuff, being intensely challenged, and growing every day 🚀 Today was my last day. I want to say a big thank you to @TobyPhln, who interviewed me back when we were just a handful of engineers and who I learned a lot from. And to @ibab, who convinced me to join and has been the best manager I’ve ever worked with. To @TheGregYang, @VastoLorde95, @tylervstorm, @phroo, @xiaobinwu, @dboedijono, @JimmyFraiture, @shayan_, and @512x512 — it was fun to cook together in the early days of Grok 2, and beyond. To @LiLiDuc22 from legal, for all the great discussions. To @TheNormanMu, who’s been an excellent partner and a great researcher. To red-teaming partners, @aje & many others. To @chaitu and @MichelleShieh, with whom I got to work on many exciting products. To our superstar supercompute team — @alsiens, @APrerepa, @TravisPepperAUS, @somani, and the rest of the crew. To @DMananniko56701 :nom-nom: And to everyone else I didn’t mention by name but who were amazing colleagues ❤️ @elonmusk, it’s been an honor 🫡 I’m incredibly proud of what we shipped together and excited for what’s next. Grateful for the journey. Onward 🚀