Elon Musk … I somewhat disagree with the AI companies that are C-corp or B-corp trying to generate profit as much, as possible or revenue as much as possible, saying they’re labs. They’re not labs. A lab is a sort of quasi-communist thing at universities. They’re corporations. Let me see your incorporation documents. Oh, okay. You’re a B or C-corp or whatever. … Dwarkesh Patel
What’s xAI’s plan to stay on the compute ramp up that all the labs are doing right now? The labs are on track to spend over $50-200 billion.
Elon Musk
You mean the corporations? The labs are at universities and they’re moving like a snail.
Dwarkesh Patel
They’re not spending $50 billion.
Elon Musk
You mean the revenue maximizing corporations… that call themselves labs. … John Collison
What will xAI’s business be? Is it going to be consumer, enterprise? What’s the mix of those things going to be? Is it going to be similar to other labs—
Elon Musk strongly agrees with this on the Dwarkesh podcast: