Musk and Zuckerberg stage AI comeback with cheaper, capable models
TL;DR
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are re-entering AI's elite with SpaceX's Grok 4.6/4.7 and Meta's Muse Glimmer—models that offer competitive performance at much lower cost and even run locally on a laptop—backed by big bets on SpaceX data, xAI, Cursor, and Scale AI to close gaps with OpenAI and Anthropic, though frontier labs still lead on performance.
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- Meta Platforms (META) Opens AI Models As $1 Billion Fund And Lawsuits Add Pressure Yahoo Finance
- Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? The Guardian
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