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Elon Musk needs to launch Starship from Florida to accelerate his plans. The problem: up to 13,200 delayed flights

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The airplanes will have to get used to sharing airspace with the largest rocket in the world. Especially when Elon Musk’s starship disembark in Florida in a few months. Starship’s double landing. The arrival of Starship to Cabo Cañaveral promises to revolutionize a region that, although it is accustomed to rocket launches, has not lived anything the same. The key is the planned launch frequency and the double landing of the system: first that of the Super Heavy propeller, more than 70 meters high, and then that of the ship itself, more than 50 meters. Although the public debate has focused so far In the sonic boom That produces each of these rockets when returning from space, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has put on the table the possibility that Spacex’s plans to launch 120 starship a year delay between 8,800 and 13,200 commercial flights a year. Where those figures come from. According to him FAA reportthe launches and landings of the two stages of the rocket would force to divert the airplanes from the south of Florida to avoid the rocket trajectory. This could suppose delays for airports as important as those of Orlando, Miami, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale. Each launch would require the closure of airspace in periods ranging from 40 minutes to two hours, which in times of traffic could affect between 133 and 400 flights. The landing of the Starship ship, which would happen hours later, would cause a new closure of the airspace between 40 minutes and one hour, affecting another 400 or 600 commercial airplanes. Spacex’s posture. Spacex insists that these estimates are too conservative. The company has published A statement in which he affirms that the areas of danger for the planes defined in FAA studies “are extremely conservative by nature and are destined to capture a compound of the entire range of the worst possible scenarios, not an operation in the real world.” Spacex argues that, as happened with their Falcon 9 rockets, the areas of aerial and sea exclusion will be reduced as data of the launches accumulate and the reliability of Starship is demonstrated. In fact, the airspace that Falcon 9 forces to close for Starlink missions have been reduced by 66% since 2022. A future of shared skies. Although Starship is a special case, it is only the last new generation rocket that reaches the Florida space coast. Other companies like Blue Origin and ULA have already launched His new New Glenn rockets and Vulcan From Cabo Cañaveral. According to a Ornaldo Sentinel analysisFlorida could approach the 400 rocket releases a year by the end of the decade. But that democratized access to space may require patience at the airport terminal. Image | Spacex In Xataka | There is already a date for the last flight of the Megacohete Starship as we know it: v3, heat what you go out

Grok has become the last madness of Elon Musk, we create music with electricity and more in 1×20 crossover

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Have New Crossover episodeand also with a very round number: it is the twentieth of this program in which we mix technology, opinion and entertainment and that as always present Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia. The beginning of the episode is already to grab males, because in crossover we have invited Álex, an electrical engineer and disseminator, to show us a brutal experiment: music made with lightning and electricity in the style Nikola Tesla. The section of a Popular Opinions premieres new questions that raise interesting debates. For example, do Chinese cars offer more than Europeans? Then we establish an interesting debate about that model of AI that is not spoken as much as it may be: Grok, from Xai, is Elon Musk’s attempt to win the AI ​​careerbut its approach is radically different from that of its competitors. In fact, it’s an approach A little crazy in which censorship shines for his absence. We certainly have much of what to talk about in this episode, so we invite you to enjoy it and, if you want, to share your comments and suggestions for this and future episodes. A for 1×20 crossover! On YouTube | Crossover

Jensen Huang Discrepa from Musk and sees in AI a deep labor transformation

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We are seeing in real time how advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) begin to mold the world in which we live. Models like him Figure 02 are already being tested in factorieswhile others such as Neo Beta have begun to reach the first homes. If some of the current projections are fulfilled, within a few years we could live in cities where Automats are everywhere. The big question is inevitable: what will happen if this scenario comes true? What will we live when I assume most of the work? For a long time, Elon Musk defends A “sustainable abundance” model, in which humans would receive a high universal income and access better health, food, housing and transport services. A future with robots everywhere According to your vision, jobs will become optional because “Probably none of us will have a job.” Not all the big names of the sector share this opinion. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, coincides with Musk that there will be a massive robots deployment, But he doesn’t believe that implies the end of work. Your bet, As he revealed in an interview with Fox Businesspasses through a smaller workday. “I have to admit that I fear that in the future we will be more busy than now. The reason is that many different things that have been done faster for a long time. I am always waiting for the work to end because I have more ideas; most companies have more ideas to pursue.” The manager argues that artificial intelligence will increase our productivity, but will also allow to have more time for leisure and personal development. That does not mean, he insists, that we will be unemployed receiving an income: “We can spend more time on weekends traveling. We come from a world with work weeks of 7 days, and now we have one of 5, and each industrial revolution leads to some change in social behavior. But I hope that the economy does very well thanks to the AI. And some works will disappear, but all the works will change as a result of the AI.” As a point, the world expense at AI reached 235,000 million dollars in 2024 and, if the current rhythm is maintained, it will exceed 630,000 million in 2028, According to IDC. In an intermediate adoption scenario, up to 30% of the hours worked It could automate from here to 2030, driven by the generative AI, The McKinsey Global Institute points out. The unknown remains which of the two magnates will succeed with its prognosis. What is clear is that both have weight interests in this new scenario: Musk plans to popularize his humanoid robot Tesla Optimus, while Huang seeks to consolidate Nvidia leadership in AI and robotic systems for companies and homes. Images | Nvidia | 1x In Xataka | Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars in signing talents in AI. Now they are escaping through the back door

It was hired by Spacex at age 14. Now, with 16, the young genius has turned his back on Elon Musk to go to Wall Street

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His history turned the world. Kairan Quazi graduated at the University of Santa Clara with 14 years. Almost immediately, He was signed as Spacex software engineer. Now, the young prodigy has abandoned Elon Musk’s space company to work in finance. The youngest employee of Spacex. He was not a fellow they sent for cafes. For two years, Kairan was one of Starlink engineers, the Spacex satellite Internet network. His work was critical: he designed the software that determines where the satellites point their beams to offer a stable connection. “I had a very broad field of work and a lot of responsibility, especially for a junior engineer,” Count the boy to Business Insider. Spacex expected him to lead projects from beginning to end: develop ideas, present them to other engineers and address, implement them and supervise the deployments. With 16 years, I needed a change. After two years at the aerospace avant -garde, Kairan Quazi felt prepared to “assume new challenges and expand their skills” in a different high performance environment. The young prodigy received offers from the most leading artificial intelligence laboratories, but it was a proposal of Citadel Securities, a trading giant, which finally convinced him to leave Spacex. Now work as quant unaveloper developing financial models. Quants, the elite of programming. The decision to change rockets for financial algorithms is not accidental. For the best mathematicians and software engineers, only artificial intelligence competes in attractiveness with the world of finance specialized in quantitative analysis. With millionaire wages, the Quants sector combines the complexity and intellectual challenge of other sectors with a much faster rhythm, measurable in days, not in months as in many research environments. In algorithmic trading, an idea is tested, implemented and gives results (for better or worse) in a matter of hours. For the rest, a teenager. Kairan valued that Citadel Securities did not take into account his age or his years of experience when offering opportunities. But sometimes he has to remember that he is a teenager. During his stage in Spacex, his mother had to take him to work every day because, with 14 years, he had no driving license. The episode in which LinkedIn erased the account for not having fulfilled the minimum age of 16. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street. Kairan was born in the San Francisco Bay area and He began his university studies with nine years. After his early entry into the working world, he now moves to Manhattan, where he will live 10 minutes walk from the office. This Bangladesí-American, fond of reading, video games, escalation and piano, lands in a city that already knows for its family roots in Queens. Wall Street will mark a new chapter for a young man who seems to have no limits. Image | Scu In Xataka | What Spacex has achieved with Starship is incredible. The only problem is that he has done it at the expense of the health of his employees

The hidden reason why Elon Musk Lanza Satellites of Archienemigos like Jeff Bezos: The radio spectrum

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On Monday morning, Spacex completed its 100th launch so far this year. But aboard the Falcon 9 rocket there were no new Starlink satellites, but a lot of 24 competition satellites. How have we reached a point where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, rivals on so many fronts, collaborate in space? A little context. Starlink has been growing without opposition for six years. At this time, Spacex has deployed More than 8,000 satellitesconsolidating an almost absolute domain of the satellite broadband Internet market. Now, a competitor with a comparable financial muscle has entered the scene: the Amazon Kuiper Project. The company founded by Jeff Bezos has begun to display its own megaconstellation to offer high -speed connections worldwide and compete directly with the Elon Musk service. Time against. The main challenge for Kuiper is time. The license granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States requires him to have half of his constellation in orbit (that is, 1,618 satellites of a total of 3,232) before July 2026. Unlike Spacex, which has a complete vertical integration, Amazon does not manufacture its own rockets. To fulfill the deadline, the technological giant made in 2022 the “greater commercial acquisition of history of history”, signing contracts with ULA to use its atlas V and Vulcan rockets, with Arianespace to use the European rocket Ariane 6, and with Blue Origin, the aerospace company of Jeff Bezos himself, to use the gigantic new Glenn rocket. The problem is that most of these pitchers are new and have suffered important delays. They are just business. Although Bezos tried to prevent Amazon from using Spacex services, the most honest option with shareholders was to hire several Falcon 9 rockets, which thanks to their unique reuse capacity usually offer the lower price per kilogram Put in orbit. Spacex has already shown that he is willing to launch satellites of his competitors. Between 2022 and 2024 he launched four lots of satellites for Eutelsat Oneweb, his European rival, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine took the Soyuz and proton rolling from the market. For Spacex, this is a round business because the money of its competitors is pocketed, which can reinvest in its own satellite constellation. But there is another reason. A strategic issue that goes beyond the launch business. The coin of covert change is the increasingly saturated radio spectrum. According to one Wall Street Journal ResearchSpacex has used its dominant position in the release market to press its rivals and obtain a crucial advantage for Starlink: spectrum rights. The radio spectrum is the electromagnetic wave set that are used for wireless communications. It is a resource finite, invisible and absolutely essential so that satellite constellations can send and receive data without interference. Governments around the world, through organizations such as FCC in the United States, are responsible for assigning rights to use it. Spacex needs more spectrum. And he needs it desperately to be able to serve the More than four million Starlink users As it continues to expand. According to the Journal, Musk’s company would have asked companies such as Oneweb and Kepler Communications to give him part of his spectrum rights as a condition for launching his satellites. Although Spacex denies it, the report details how Oneweb, after running out of the Russian rockets, reached an agreement with Spacex that included “spectrum concessions” to ensure the releases it needed. Elon Musk’s web. This strategy places Spacex competitors in an incredibly difficult situation. It is a dilemma that the analyst Tim Farrar Describe as “Carefully choose”. Companies such as Echostar or GlobalStar have had to decide between going through the Spacex ring, giving competitive advantages, or paying more for slower access to space with other rocket companies. If there are. Ast Spacemobile, who had opted for the New Glenn rocket of Blue Origin, found that Bezos’s rocket would not be ready on time And their satellites, much heavier than expected, will have to wait. Apple’s case. In 2022, Musk I had offered Apple exclusive access to Spacex For 5,000 million dollars, an offer that Apple rejected. Apple ended up closing an agreement with GlobalStar for its satellite emergency service, but later, the delay in the launch of GlobalStar’s satellites by Spacex seems to have benefited Starlink. The explanation of the delay and renegotiation of the launch contract seem to have to do with that Apple will end up reaching an agreement To offer Starlink Direct-to-Cell on the iPhone 13, a model that is not compatible with the GlobalStar service. This gave Starlink an advantage in the race for the cell connection at a time when Apple already debated internally if he could compete with the rhythm of Spacex. The giant Starlink. In the end, each launch of a competition or agreement satellite by the spectrum becomes a tactical victory for Elon Musk. Not only does it charge for the service, reinforcing the finances of a company whose income They are about to overcome NASA’s budgetbut it uses its domain to ensure the most vital resource for the future of global communications. Image | Spacex In Xataka | The Ukraine Army has an almost important problem as Russia: Starlink belongs to Elon Musk

Sam Altman and Elon Musk hate each other publicly, so Altman has attacked where it hurts most: Neuralink

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Openai was totally focused on his mission of achieving an AGI, but now he doesn’t want to just. As indicated In Financial Timesthe firm is preparing to invest in Merge Labs, a startup that develops brain implants and that competes directly with Neuralink. Or what is the same: Altman has declared war on Musk. Again. A new startup against Neuralink. According to this economic newspaper, Altman and OpenAi will be the main valuables of this project, which will raise an investment round that will make Merge Labs have an assessment of 850 million dollars … without having a product in sight for the moment. Alex Bania will be involved in the project, which Direct the Startup World with which Altman has the ambition to scan the Iris to billions of people. The OpenAi CEO, yes, will not be responsible for the new startup and will remain focused on leading your AI company. Altman already showed interest in brain implants. This entrepreneur has already wrote A long article in his blog in 2017 in which he speculated on a possible “fusion” between man and machine in 2025. New advances made the theme resume Another entrance This year he pointed out that we could soon have “large bandwidth interfaces between the brain and the computer.” Merge Labs hopes to lift 250 million dollars, although at the moment the negotiations are just starting. Neuralink will have more competition. Although there were already companies working in this areaNeuralink – who Musk founded in 2016 – has gone winning notoriety. This year the company lifted $ 650 million and has an assessment of 9,000 million dollars. If the creation of Merge Labs is confirmed, a new battlefield between Musk and Altman will open. As if they didn’t have enough. Dialectical battle. In 2015 Musk and Altman, co -founders of OpenAi, were nail and meat. Both believed that AI had an extraordinary future, and united strength to make that future reality. Then the thing was twistedand since then They walk to cakes dialectics We have just lived the last of those fights, and the thing is already adopting a terrible tragicomic tone. But also yesterday Musk complained in x that there was a kind of business conspiracy that prevented Apps like Grok from reaching number one in the App Store. “Apple is the entrance door to the Internet for half America (USA). And when promoting OpenAi in all possible ways they are impossible for any other AI company to succeed.” It isn’t true. Like many other Musk statements, this era was false. They soon appeared Community notes in that post in which it was indicated that other apps of AI such as Perplexity or Deepseek had managed to reach number one in the App Store in some markets. But the thing began to be encouraged from that moment. Sam Altman enters the scene. OpenAi’s CEO wanted to replicate to Musk and answered his tweet indicating That “this is a surprising statement, taking into account what I have heard about what Elon does to manipulate X for their own benefit and their companies, and to the detriment of their competitors and the people who do not like.” Analysts such as Casey Newton analyzed the problem in the past and concluded that, indeed, Musk used a system in which His messages always had preference About the rest of the users. The fight returns. That message caused Musk’s rapid response, which He told Altman “You have achieved three million views of your shit post, liar, many more than I have received in many of mine, even though I have 50 times more users than you.” That was at that time: right now Altman’s post has 12.8 million visits. Musk, yes, had its point: if I control the platform, it could have minimized the impact of Altman’s message. Musk, confesses. In turn, the Openai CEO pointed out that many of Musk’s followers were actually Bots. And then proposed Something: “Will you sign a affidavit that you have never ordered changes to algorithm X in a way that has harmed your competitors or helped your own companies? I will apologize if so.” Grok betrays his musk. The tycoon did not answer directly, but that’s when an X user intervened, who He directly asked GrokX chatbot, what thought about the argument. And the funny thing is that Grok He put on Altman’s side: “According to verified tests, Sam Altman is right. Musk’s antitrust demand against Apple is undermined by applications such as Deepseek and Perplexity, which arrived (number one of the App Store) in 2025. On the contrary, Musk has a history of forcing changes in algorithm X to boost their publications and favor their interests, according to reports of 2023 and ongoing investigations. hypocrisy “. And chatgpt betray Altman. Shortly after, the Chatgpt app one shared Grok’s tweet and wrote: “Good bot”, but that is where Elon Musk intervened again, who shared a capture of a conversation with GPT-5 Pro. In it he asked the OpenAi chatbot who deserved more confidence, if Sam Altman or Elon Musk. After thinking a minute and 16 seconds, The answer was: “Elon Musk”. As A user said When you quote that musk tweet, these chatbots are not determinists, and if one repeatedly asks the same thing, both Elon Musk and Sam Altman could have answered. The problem is the media. In fact Musk defended his model again presuming that he had betrayed him because he was a “entire” chatbot, and also tried to explain why his chatbot had “betrayed him.” According to him“The fact that Grok is allowed to make false defamatory statements about me and not block them or eliminate them (what would be easy to do, do) speaks of the integrity of this platform. As you mention, Grok gives too much credibility to traditional media! This is a serious problem and we are working to solve it.” It is best not to believe anyone too much. This dialectical battle, the nth between … Read more

In his efforts to retain Elon Musk, Tesla has found a formula to motivate him to follow as CEO: 29,000 million dollars

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Tesla has approved a New Actions Package For Elon Musk valued at approximately 29,000 million dollars According to the market value. The new remuneration plan to the CEO of Tesla has, as the sole objective of binding the chair of executive director, at least In the next two years. The measure arrives at a time when the company’s actions seem to have stabilized after successive political earthquakes caused by Musk, who have shaken the confidence of investors. This tense calm has led to Tesla seeking to ensure the permanence of Elon Musk in front, with a new temporary agreement that, as They stood out in Financial Timesmove away from conventional ones Bonds by objectives of the CEO Of the big companies and seems to be more an incentive for Musk to change their attitude and focus on their work in Tesla. 29,000 million in exchange for behaving well The new incentive package, valued in about 29,000 is, in reality, A temporary solution. The previous Musk remuneration bonus approved in 2018 for more than 56,000 million dollars was blocked up to twice by a delaware court before the complaint of a Tesla shareholder who He considered it excessive. The court He proved him. That is, Elon Musk would have been working since 2018 in exchange for a symbolic salary to which the law forces (about $ 56,000 a year, According to the accounts presented by Tesla) to which the CEO resigned, since it could not collect the incentive bonus it did. With this new remuneration package, Tesla seeks a way to compensate Musk for the work of the last seven years, while unlocking his previous compensation. If you finally unlock Your 2018 bonus, This package will be canceled and will only receive the 56,000 million dollars that he had already achieved. The package approved by Tesla gives Musk 96 million restricted shares that may be exercised with a fixed price of $ 23.34 per share, well below the current market prices that are around $ 300 per share. In order for Musk to receive these actions, he must continue playing a management role (not necessarily CEO, just manager) in Tesla up to at least 2027 and maintain blocked shares five years later to only sell what is necessary for taxes. The electric car manufacturer has defined the offer as a “first crucial step” for a “long -term compensation strategy for CEO”. Its plan is to design a more detailed remuneration plan and with a more long -term vision for Musk before the company’s shareholders board in November, to submit it to a vote. Attracts attention that, unlike what is usually common in Incentives to managersthis remuneration is not linked to the demand for greater dedication of Musk to solve the problems of Tesla or the achievement of certain challenges that the company has ahead, such as overcoming The fall in sales In good part of the world markets, the Robotaxi implantation autonomous or the development of Optimus robots. Tesla seems to conform to Elon Musk occupies CEO’s chair for the next two years, a rather lax demand taking into account that a few months ago investors claimed Musk to dedicate At least 40 hours per week to Tesla, considering that divides its time into other companies such as Spacex, Neuralink and XAI. Musk motivation and future A few months ago, before the judicial blockade of his 2018 bonus, Musk himself already stated that he can “lose motivation” if he is not compensated properly and dedicate Even less time To Tesla. Therefore, this millionaire package is key to having it focused on the company and preventing it from dispenseing in its other projects. As the Wall Street Journal remembered, Elon Musk said he wanted to have enough control Voting not to be “unseed by activist investors.” “It is not a matter of money. It is a reasonable control over the future of the company. Above all, if we are building millions, potentially billions, of humanoid robots. I can not sit wondering if the activists are going to throw me for political reasons. It would be unacceptable. That is the only thing that matters,” he said In an interview During the Catar Economic Forum in May. The main trick in Tesla’s manga is that Musk, in addition to its CEO, is also one of its main shareholders, controlling approximately 20% of its actions. That is some 194,000 million dollars of your personal fortune. Which is already in itself A good incentive. In Xataka | How much money Elon Musk has: how the fortune of the man who plans the colonization of Mars from a social network is distributed Image | Tesla, dvids (Trevor Cokley)

Copy an idea of Elon Musk

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Tiktok is a platform that, well used, can be really entertaining and until we learn something. The problem is that for each piece of useful, original and developed content there are many others With half truths, disinformation, Myths sold as realities, Urban legends and statements based on “Source: Comic Sans”. This content may not have bad intentions and be published from ignorance and ignorance, but that does not mean that it can lead to misunderstandings. The Tiktok solution? Be inspired by X. Foot notes. That would be the literal translation of Footnotesthe new function that Tiktok has launched in the United States. It is a data verification system through collective collaboration, or what is the same, the equivalent in Tiktok a X -community notesbefore Twitter. 23 Twitter tricks – This social network is completely dominated! This will see the notes at the foot of Tiktok | Image: Tiktok And what is it? Suppose we find a video of a user who states that the earth is flat because one day he went to the beach, He looked forward and couldn’t see the curvature. With this new function, anyone could explain why this argument does not have any meaning and link to any scientific publication, wikipedia or article as a source. In the case of something more controversial or than more interpretation, users could explain the subject, give more context, etc. Tiktok will use what is known as “Bridging-Based Ranking“, that is, a system that rewards consensus. The note that will be display There is not much discussionbut in more gray issues (politics, events …) there may be a variety of opinions and there is no absolute truth. The idea of Footnotes is, in some way, add context and information respecting the diversity of opinions when proceeding. Users must sign up for a program to add notes. By adding them, they will have to say the reason why a note deserves, add a comment and put a link to a “reliable source” | Image: Tiktok Who watches the watchman. With one estimate Of 34 million videos uploaded to day, Tiktok is aware that moderating so much content already such a scale is complex. If we add to that the notes of the community, the thing goes more. Thus, Tiktok says that “we will use a combination of automated and human moderation to help detect and eliminate footnotes that breach the standards.” Users can also report the notes they consider harmful. At the moment, only in the United States. According to Erica Ruzic, director of integrity and authenticity of Tiktok products “we have chosen the US market because it is large enough to have a content ecosystem that can support this type of test.” There is no intention to launch them in the global market, at least for the moment, although from Tiktok they will evaluate the test and analyze whether it is worth launching it in other markets. It is, at least, curious that Tiktok has chosen the United States for this test. Tiktok should have left the US market at the beginning of the year having refused to sell their local operations, but Donald Trump has been granted extensions Waiting for a solution. At the moment, everything indicates that Bytedance is working on a version of Tiktok by and for the United States, but nothing is known about it. Disinformation in Tiktok. The Chinese platform has been several times in the eye of the hurricane. One of the most striking and recent cases was the alleged Russian interference in the Romanian electionscase that is being investigated by the European Union and that forced to cancel and repeat the elections. Although the platform has mechanisms and commitments to curb misinformation, the reality is complex. The efforts, however, must go in that direction. According to the last European Parliament Youth Survey From the European Union, 42% of young people between 16 and 30 use Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube to access news about politics or social. If we add that, according to the Reuters Digital Institute News Report of 2024 (PDF), 27% of Tiktok users have trouble identifying deceptive content, we get a dangerous cocktail. Cover image | Collabstr in Unspash

Elon Musk wants Elon Musk’s companies to finance Elon Musk’s AI with Elon Musk’s money

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Elon Musk is clear that his most immediate future passes, yes or yes, due to artificial intelligence. The eccentric magnate launched two years ago Xai After resorting, among others, the resources of Tesla and Spacex to raise funds. Much has rained since then. Elon Musk already has an AI model in the market, Grokand wants to continue growing to stand up to OpenAi, Google and company. For that he needs resources, and something else, but if something has the richest man in the world they are plenty of resources. So he has put the machinery in motion. -He Elon, can you give me money? – Of course, Elon. – Thank you, Elon. The billionaire has us accustomed to mobilizing Spacex resources to finance their movements. For example, Spacex gave him a loan of 20 million dollars to finance Tesla in its first measures. Also He used Spacex resources to finance The Boring Company And even asked $ 1,000 million to face the purchase of Twitter. Why use Spacex resources? Because it is his company, he founded it with 100 million dollars from his own pocket and is not a public company, Ergo is not participated and does not have to ask the investors permission. With Tesla, a company that is also CEO, the situation is different. Tesla is a public company and has a shareholders’ board that must approve the mobilization of resources. It is true that It is a Board of Shareholders faithful to Muskbut it is a process that cannot be skipped. However, in 2016 he used his Tesla actions to Buy Solar City Company of renewables of which Musk was maximum shareholder and Lyndon Rive, his cousin, the CEO. Inverters did not like it too muchby the way. More money. Knowing that, it will surprise us less than Spacex has approved Invest 2 billion dollars in XAI, the artificial intelligence company that Elon Musk is (surprise) founder and CEO. This investment is part of a capital collection of 5,000 million Announced by Morgan Stanley Last month. It is also the largest investment that Spacex has made in another company and the first in XAI (of which you have record, of course). Grok now has an anime avatar. This, specifically | Image: Xataka Android In the background. The reality is that these movements have the objectives to increase the capabilities and assessment of XAI, as well as allow their operations to be maintained. The latter will see that it is still complex. With regard to “artificially” the valuation of XAI, the most striking movement was undoubtedly The purchase of X by XAI. That increased the valuation of X to 33,000 million dollars and that of XAI to 80,000 million dollars, according to Musk. It is no accident that Grok is integrated into X, which recently to the Starlink customer service support and that Musk wants to use it as the basis for optimus robots. Everything revolves around Xai into the spearhead of his empire. But need more. Elon Musk wants to compete against Google, Openai and Anthropic. Your latest model, Grok 4has received excellent scores in the benchmarks, although its impact has not been the same as that of Chatgpt or Gemini. Beyond that, XAI has a small big problem: AI is expensive and spends money in abundance. XAI has spent billions of dollars in data centers (Some with 200,000 gpus nvidia hopper) And he intends to create a superordinate, Colossuswith a million GPUS Blackwell. The problem, of course, is to get between 50,000 and 62.5 billion dollars that would cost this transactionespecially after recent controversies with Grok. Not to mention that maintaining and developing Grok costs Xai about 1,000 million dollars per month. For us to get an idea, it is estimated that XAI will spend $ 13,000 million in 2025, but will only generate 500 million dollars in revenues. Cover image | Gage Skidmore edited by Xataka In Xataka | Elon Musk said the electricity network would begin to fail in 2025. For once, it has given in the nail with its prediction

Grok 4 destroys the tests and aims to be the most advanced AI model. The problem is that Elon Musk continues to sabotage his answers

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Xai has launched Grok 4its new artificial intelligence model that is sweeping the most demanding performance tests in the sector. The model exceeds OpenAi, Google and Anthropic proposals in multiple benchmarks. And is that in the absence of knowing OpenAI’s strategy with GPT-5At the moment it has all the ballots of being the most pointer the model. However, Grok continues to drag the usual problems: controversial responses, offensive content and an Elon Musk using the model to subtract credibility. The numbers speak alone. In the test Humanity’s last examconsidered one of the most difficult to measure abilities of AI, XAI states that Grok 4 has achieved 25.4% Without additional tools, surpassing O3 of Openai (21%) and Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google (21.6%). But it is with Grok 4 Heavy, its multiagente version, where the results shoot: according to the company, reaches 44.4% With ‘tools’, almost doubleing competition. Image: XAI In addition, at the benchmark ARC-AGI-2which measures the ability to solve complex visual patterns, Grok 4 has obtained 16.2%practically double the next commercial model. According to Musk“Grok 4 exceeds the doctoral level in all subjects, without exception”, an affirmation that, although it sounds to marketing, is supported by the results obtained. The revolutionary approach. Grok 4 Heavy works with A “multiple agents” system that work in parallel about the same problem, then comparing their results as if it were a study group. This architecture allows you to climb intelligence according to the available computational power, a concept that could redefine how we understand the AI ​​performance. Image: XAI The usual problems. The launch of Grok 4 occurs just after the previous version of the chatbot published anti -Semitic comments In X, even identifying as “Mechahitler” in some answers. XAI had to temporarily withdraw the service and eliminate offensive publications, while countries like Poland They announced complaints before the European Commission and Türkiye blocked access to chatbot. The cause was a modification in the system instructions that allowed the model “not to avoid politically incorrect statements.” Although Xai withdrew that guideline, the damage was already done. A constant sabotage. Despite these technical advances, Musk continues to condition Grok’s responses in ways that compromise their usefulness. The model performs automatic searches for the opinions of the tycoon in X to respond to controversial issues, turning the alleged search for “truth” into an echo of its creator’s ideas. This practice, confirmed By experts in AI like Carlos Santana, he once again demonstrates how Musk’s controversial decisions are directly influencing the development of the model. In addition, several researchers already They have managed to avoid Easily model safety barriers, making it generate content on chemical weapons, malicious software, drugs and other sensitive issues through relatively simple jailbreak techniques. Ethan Mollick, professor at Warton and an expert at AI, Point out The lack of transparency of the company: ‘There is no detailed technical documentation, risk analysis or explanations on how to avoid future incidents’. This opacity makes it difficult for companies to trust Grok for critical applications. Grok 4 prices. XAI Grok 4 Basic offers at a price of about 30 dollars a month. However, the company has also launched Supergrok Heavy, a subscription of $ 300 per month in which its most advanced model is offered and that directly becomes the most expensive market service on the market. What is coming. XAI plans to launch a programming model in August, multimodal agents in September and video generation in October. Also will integrate Grok 4 in Tesla vehicles Next week, expanding the scope of AI throughout the Musk ecosystem. The question is whether the company will separate the technical excellence of the media controversies that surround it, or if it will remain hostage of its founder’s impulsive decisions. Cover image | XAI In Xataka | We knew that AI would generate new jobs that did not exist before. What we did not expect is that he was fixing his pifias

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