HiddenPrior's Shortform

Tyler Henderson

HiddenPrior's Shortform

8th Jun 2026

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[-]Tyler Henderson4d50

I keep running into (understandably) confused takes on "If the CEOs of these companies really believe AI might kill everyone... why would they start a company to build AI?" and rather than try to explain with nuance in words:

Suggested refinements are welcome.

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[-]StanislavKrym4d21

My main issue is that Meta AI was founded in 2013 as Facebook AI Research, before OpenAI. Two of the best-known(?) Chinese labs, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, were founded in 2023, but I doubt think that it was Anthropic who inspired them. Maybe it was the ChatGPT moment? Alibaba's Qwen had its architecture based on one of Meta's Llamas. But I don't quite understand what motivated Musk to found xAI.

P.S. I wonder how similar to your understanding are @Richard_Ngo's sequence of posts and my mono-response.

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