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My first interview w @sulaimanghori, Member of Technical Staff @xAI.
0:41 WTF is happening at xAI
1:46 Predicting future bottlenecks
3:05 Shredding conventional timelines
4:23 Experience joining xAI
9:23 Bootstrapping off the Tesla network
11:59 What is Macrohard
13:14 How Elon deals w fires
16:30 What it’s like working at xAI
20:33 Cybertruck bet with Elon
21:12 Using 80 mobile generators + battery packs to balance load at their data centers
22:45 How they built Colossus in 122 days
23:35 Work backwards & figure out the highest leverage thing you can be doing
25:51 How xAI hires
30:27 Challenging requirements
32:46 Experimentation
34:55 How Elon recalibrated his timeline estimates
39:15 AI engineers vs AI researchers
40:36 No one tells me ‘no’
42:09 Everyone’s an engineer
44:06 Why fuzziness between teams is an advantage
48:25 Testing human emulators as employees
50:00 Biggest blunders
53:23 What a meeting w Elon is like
54:22 How Elon gives feedback
56:44 Figuring out ‘what is truth’ for Grokipedia
59:21 What happens when Elon sees wrong Grok outputs on X
1:00:08 What a surge feels like & operating in xAI’s war room
1:02:53 Making fidget spinners & 3D printers in his bedroom
1:08:48 Creating a liquid fuel rocket engine
