Jaime Alonso

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!

@TobyPhln @xai @elonmusk This is a huge shock, personally, for the London team, and for xAI. It's cliche to say "xAI would not be the same without you" but in this case it's literally true. Building xAI together has been the experience of a lifetime, godspeed and now take care of yourself!

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?

See you there! 👀

@ibab Wow this is very sad news for xAI. It’s been great to work with you through this journey, from a tiny 20 people team to the established top lab that it is today. Wishing you the best for what’s next!

Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023. I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the future might hold. We both felt that a new AI company with a different kind of mission was needed. Building AI that advances humanity has been my lifelong dream. My parents left the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR in search of a better life for their kids. Life wasn’t always easy as immigrants. Despite the hardships, my parents believed that human values were priceless: values like courage, compassion, curiosity for understanding the world. As a child, I admired scientists like Richard Feynman and Max Planck, who relentlessly pushed the frontiers of physics in order to understand the universe. As a particle physics PhD student at CERN I was excited to contribute to that mission. But the search for new physics was getting harder and harder, requiring bigger and bigger colliders, while new discoveries kept getting fewer. So I began to wonder if superintelligence, not larger colliders, could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Could AI develop a consistent theory of quantum gravity? Could AI prove the Riemann hypothesis? In early 2023 I became convinced that we were getting close to a recipe for superintelligence. I saw the writing on the wall: very soon AI could reason beyond the level of humans. How could we ensure that this technology is used for good? Elon had warned of the dangers of powerful AI for years. Elon and I realized that we had a shared vision of AI used to benefit humanity, thus we recruited more like minded engineers and set off to build xAI. The early days of xAI were not easy. Naysayers told us that we arrived too late to the game, so starting a top AI company from scratch would be impossible. But we believed we could do the impossible. Starting a company from zero required lots of hands-on work. In the beginning I built many of the foundational tools used at the company to launch and manage training jobs. I later oversaw much of the engineering at the company, including Infrastructure, Product and Applied AI projects. xAI’s people are deeply dedicated. Through blood sweat and tears, our team’s blistering velocity built the Memphis supercluster, and shipped frontier models faster than any company in history. I learned 2 priceless lessons from Elon: #1 be fearless in rolling up your sleeves to personally dig into technical problems, #2 have a maniacal sense of urgency. xAI executes at ludicrous speed. Industry veterans told us that building the Memphis supercluster in 120 days would be impossible. But we believed we could do the impossible. Our goal was to get our training setup running at scale on the Memphis cluster ASAP. Towards the end of our 120 day deadline, we were riddled with mysterious issues with communicating over RDMA between the machines. Elon decided to fly to the datacenter, and we followed. Our infra team landed in Memphis in the middle of the night and got straight to work. After pouring through tens of thousands of lines of lspci output we finally identified a wrong BIOS setting, the root of the problem. Elon was there with us until late into the night. When the training run finally worked, Elon posted our triumph at “4:20am” causing us to laugh out loud. I will never forget the rush of adrenaline that night, and the emotional bonds that we were all in this together. We went to bed feeling like we were living through the most exhilarating time of our lives. I have enormous love for the whole family at xAI. Our team is truly special - you’re the most dedicated people I’ve ever worked with. Catching up to the frontier this quickly hasn’t been easy. It was made possible by everyone’s diehard grit and team spirit. Thank you to every single person who joined me on this adventure. I want to honor your contributions, your time, your sacrifices, which are never easy. I will always remember working together far into the nights and burning the midnight oil. I will never forget the sacrifices and contributions you’ve made. As I drive away today, I feel like a proud parent, driving away after sending their kid away to college. My heart is brimming with tears of joy, rooting for the company as it grows and matures. As I'm heading towards my next chapter, I’m inspired by how my parents immigrated to seek a better world for their children. Recently I had dinner with Max Tegmark, founder of the Future of Life Institute. He showed me a photo of his young sons, and asked me “how can we build AI safely to ensure that our children can flourish?” I was deeply moved by his question. Earlier in my career, I was a technical lead for DeepMind's Alphastar StarCraft agent, and I got to see how powerful reinforcement learning is when scaled up. As frontier models become more agentic over longer horizons and a wider range of tasks, they will take on more and more powerful capabilities, which will make it critical to study and advance AI safety. I want to continue on my mission to bring about AI that’s safe and beneficial to humanity. I’m announcing the launch of Babuschkin Ventures, which supports AI safety research and backs startups in AI and agentic systems that advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe. Please reach out at ventures@babuschk.in if you want to chat. The singularity is near, but humanity’s future is bright!

@techdevnotes @xai Fixed. You should see the conversations you’ve created during this time. Thanks for reporting!

@JaimeAlns @xai atleast for me it looks like it retains when i login via apple, google. not for x, email

Grok Web is not storing conversation history likely a bug but chat history is being deleted, same thing happens with Grok iOS App @xAI

@techdevnotes @xai Yes, bug identified. History is not lost - just a bug in displaying it. Pushing fix now

don't panic that chatgpt is down grok.com got your back!

@techdevnotes @xai 10MB is a bug - this is fixed now

this is such a weird error message in Grok iOS App: resourceExhausted: User exceeds their storage allowance. Current usage: 10.13 MB. Limit: 10 MB [WKE=file:storage-exhausted] what is 10 MB limit for and does it ever reset @xAI?

@techdevnotes @xai I can't reproduce this - looking into it. Do you get this error on the iOS app? They share the same backend.

getting errors uploading Any Image in Grok Web ... @xAI

@techdevnotes We just fixed this now. Sorry for that!

My Grok iOS Standalone App broke I can't upload any image and it's resulting in error invalidArgument: name: Field is empty but must not be empty. [WKE=form-invalid:not-empty:name]

Try it now in the US!

Just some of the things you can do with our API

We just launched our API! This is what Grok thinks x.com/i/grok/share/l…

Grok weighs in on what new modes we should add... 🤔 x.com/i/grok/share/Y…

Excited to share what we've been working on for the last four months!

You can test our new API now and we're kicking off the launch with a new model that is fast and capable. I'm very proud of the team. The entire system was written from scratch by 6 engineers in 4 months.

Chatbot Arena update❤️‍🔥 Exciting news—@xAI's Grok-2 and Grok-mini are now officially on the leaderboard! With over 6000 community votes, Grok-2 has claimed the #2 spot, surpassing GPT-4o (May) and tying with the latest Gemini! Grok-2-mini also impresses at #5. Grok-2 excels in Math (#1), and #2 across the boards (Hard Prompts, Coding, Instruction-following). More plot analysis in 2nd post👇 Huge congratulations to @xAI on this remarkable achievement!

sus-column-r 🏛️ is here!