Ilya seems to think this is the case as well: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/2027486969174102261 though Zvi's point that any stands from OpenAI are ~2 orders of magnitude smaller seems right: https://x.com/TheZvi/status/2027493723269992661
> Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.
[0]: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai...?
Elon mentioned they will be releasing a cli coding tool for grok similar to Claude Code, will be interesting to see how it performs given they have their own datacenter (largest in the world and building another larger one)
Whether the model works accurately or inaccurately doesn’t matter. In some ways, having a trigger-happy model may serve the US military’s interests better than a discerning one.
underdeserver•1h ago
Six-month phase out period, that's something. I guess the DoW's been using Claude quite a bit.
johnbarron•44m ago
"Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow."
with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.
WTF !!!