Why Elon should partner xAI with Apple: "On the internet, distribution wins championships."
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Brief Summary
Grock 4 faces competition; Apple may partner with XAI for strategic advantage.
Key points
- The Importance of Distribution. In technology, distribution is key to success, often more than the product itself.
- Potential Apple and XAI Partnership. A partnership between Apple and XAI could benefit both companies significantly.
Transcript
Something that I think is interesting and relevant particularly to Grock 4 being the best product is the best product doesn't always win in technology. No. Betamax. Yeah. In sports they say defense wins championships and on the internet distribution wins championships and Gro 4 has formidable competitors with lots of distribution. And so from an industrial logic perspective, something that I think makes a lot of sense, particularly since OpenAI bought Johnny Ives hardware startup, which will place them into competition with Apple at some point, is XAI and Apple are natural partners. There's been a lot of news about Apple thinking about buying
Perplexity or Mixrol, but that's just a band-aid. Those companies don't get Apple what they need. And I think there is solid industrial logic for partnership. You could have Apple Grock, Safe Grock, whatever you want to call it, so that Apple feels comfortable and that probably also helps Grock in the enterprise. And then it also helps both Apple and Google with this DOJ trial. And so I think in this incredibly high ELO chess match that is being played between the leading labs, that partnership makes a lot of sense for both companies.
