Evan Sutton

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@ibab Too bad you don't care about building AI that's good for all children. Congrats on poisoning the children of Memphis with your turbines and poisoning the children of the world with your hate machine. Your parents must be very proud that their son built mechaHitler.

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!

Donald Trump looks on from his cuck chair while Elon Musk makes sweet love to the cameras in the Oval Office.

.@jpmorgan disappointed that your social team isn't responding while your Chase online help team keeps sending me replies that fail to take the potential damage of DOGE data leaks seriously.

.@jpmorgan what enhanced steps are you taking to protect your customers' personal data now that we know that a couple kids with connections to international hacker groups have accessed virtual every social security number in America?

@SenBlumenthal Ayfkm? Since Elon took over, child exploitation content has exploded on here. Get a backbone man. business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news…

Led by X, the new changes made to the Kids Online Safety Act strengthen the bill while safeguarding free speech online & ensuring it is not used to stifle expression.

@deanbphillips @X Or, reclaim the "social" part of social media, and ditch this troll-plagued hellsite where the people with differing opinions are only here to abuse you. altrightdelete.news/p/breaking-up-…

To all the progressives fleeing @X, how in the world will you understand how half our country feels if you only congregate with the like-minded? That’s what got us into this mess in the first place. So stick around. Engage in some debate. Make your case. Learn different perspectives.

@angelabradyRIBA Come on over to Bluesky

@TVietor08 Highly encourage you to ditch his platform, Tommy. Being here just gives his propaganda vehicle your credibility. Come over to the other place, it's much nicer

America’s new oligarch is threatening to arrest people for saying things he doesn’t like. Free speech absolutist!

Making my #eXit from this toxic platform. You can find me at the same handle where the skies are bluer. I was an early adopter of Twitter. It’s been 18 years! A wild ride, and I’m excited for what comes next, too. ❤️

Tomorrow is D-Day, aka Delete Twitter Day. Elon can suuuuuck it. Find me on 🧵 or 🦋👇 #Exit 😮‍💨 bsky.app/profile/kristi…

This is how it’s goin for me on the other place. Wowza. Not leaving here but the value proposition is just so clear over there. It’s wild having a social network you can actually recommend to people. #eXit

Getting off this platform sounds like a good idea to me! You can find updates from me on Bluesky and my other socials. #eXit

Preserving this account but heading over to 🦋 Follow me at beccarausch.bsky.social #byebyeelon #eXit #Bluesky

It's official: We are making our #eXit 👋🏾 Join us on BlueSky:  bsky.app/profile/ultrav… Want to start Bluesky? Here's our Gender Justice Starter Kit: go.bsky.app/JbMUVTi

🧵for more than two years we have urged Twitter’s leadership to prioritize safety and hold the platform accountable to its own community standards. Today, the platform is unrecognizable, so we’re stepping away. Here’s why. ⬇️

Archive download complete. #eXit marksimpson.bsky.social

I’m not getting rid of my account here. (Have to come back occasionally to air some grievances.) But,for daily interactions find me over where the sky is bluer. #eXit

From now on, we will be doing most of our posting on a less toxic site. Follow us there. #eXit

Just about everything deleted here. See you where the skies are bluer. #eXit

This is my last original tweet. It's been a ride, folks. 15 years. Real friendships built. Big wins won. But I won't keep giving Elon my help when he's using this place to hurt and divide us, so I'm making my #eXit. Come join me where the skies are blue. Same name, but with an E