{"id":"2011913655793918097","url":"https://x.com/ti_morse/status/2011913655793918097","text":"My first interview w @sulaimanghori, Member of Technical Staff @xAI.\n\n0:41 WTF is happening at xAI\n1:46 Predicting future bottlenecks\n3:05 Shredding conventional timelines\n4:23 Experience joining xAI\n9:23 Bootstrapping off the Tesla network\n11:59 What is Macrohard\n13:14 How Elon deals w fires\n16:30 What it’s like working at xAI\n20:33 Cybertruck bet with Elon\n21:12 Using 80 mobile generators + battery packs to balance load at their data centers\n22:45 How they built Colossus in 122 days\n23:35 Work backwards & figure out the highest leverage thing you can be doing\n25:51 How xAI hires\n30:27 Challenging requirements\n32:46 Experimentation\n34:55 How Elon recalibrated his timeline estimates\n39:15 AI engineers vs AI researchers\n40:36 No one tells me ‘no’\n42:09 Everyone’s an engineer\n44:06 Why fuzziness between teams is an advantage\n48:25 Testing human emulators as employees\n50:00 Biggest blunders\n53:23 What a meeting w Elon is like\n54:22 How Elon gives feedback\n56:44 Figuring out ‘what is truth’ for Grokipedia\n59:21 What happens when Elon sees wrong Grok outputs on X\n1:00:08 What a surge feels like & operating in xAI’s war room\n1:02:53 Making fidget spinners & 3D printers in his bedroom\n1:08:48 Creating a liquid fuel rocket engine","author":{"name":"Ti Morse","username":"ti_morse","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2063717486797762560/5q0xPFZ7_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Thu Jan 15 21:29:29 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":239,"retweets":686,"likes":6021,"views":5068923},"media":{"photos":[],"videos":[{"url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2011909090898034688/vid/avc1/3840x2160/h9iDTwGNjhvoDGGb.mp4?tag=21","thumbnailUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2011909090898034688/img/3aNZpHM7Ei7ZSOOa.jpg","width":3840,"height":2160,"duration":4299.198}]},"adhxContext":{"savedByCount":1,"publicTags":[],"previewUrl":"https://adhx.com/ti_morse/status/2011913655793918097"}}