Correct, though my perception is that it's a distant Nth-place player behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.

Grok 2 is already better than Claude 3.5, at least for programming tasks, in my experience.

Why would musk want another AI company or is this just to get back at Altman?

My instinct says he wants OpenAI so he can turn ChatGPT into another propaganda machine like he did with Twitter.

I didn't realize I was implying that. It was def a propaganda machine before, but I hope we can agree that under Musk it is a very different machine

To turn something into implies it isn’t already

You don't understand, it was promotion of _the right things_, it doesn't count as propaganda. /s

The twitter files broke so many people's brains. They revealed essentially nothing of consequence, but it validates those who were already convinced that twitter was "silencing conservative voices".

Of course when we look at any sort of success metrics that actually matter to a twitter personality, the top spots are overwhelmingly conservative pundits, and essentially always have been.

Except for when they, you know, get banned entirely