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Scale AI, Grok, & AI Valuations
1/ Big Players Pull Back from Scale AI After Meta Buys Nearly Half
Meta just scooped up 49% of Scale AI — and the industry reaction has been telling.
Now, some major enterprise partners are distancing themselves, which makes sense as the top AI companies are in fierce competition with one another.
🚨NEWS: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and xAI planning to step back from Scale AI
— NIK (@ns123abc)
5:27 AM • Jun 14, 2025
One can look to how Anthropic revoked Windsurf’s Claude access after OpenAI bought them- and we’re only getting started!
2/ Grok 3.5 Hype Train Gains Steam
Elon’s back on the megaphone, hyping Grok 3.5.
Am increasingly confident that Grok 3.5 will be the smartest AI by a significant margin
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
4:35 AM • Jun 15, 2025
And if Grok 3 was any indicator — which topped benchmarks when it dropped — this one might actually live up to the noise.
3/ Elon Sounds the Alarm on AI Startup Valuations at YC
At YC Startup School, Elon voiced serious concern about AI startup valuations being way out of control.
Elon Musk tonight on crazy AI startup valuations: "It (Zip2) sold for like $300M, which was a lot at the time. These days I think the minimum impulse bid for an AI startup is like $1 billion dollars. There's so many frickin unicorns it's like a herd of unicorns; The hype of AI is
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
5:23 AM • Jun 17, 2025
He’s not wrong — the froth in early-stage AI right now is next level.
4/ Oracle + xAI = Power Play
Oracle just partnered with xAI — and that’s a big deal.
xAI NEWS: Oracle has announced a partnership with xAI to deliver Grok 3 models through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service for content creation, research, and business process automation.
OCI will enhance Grok 3 with enterprise-grade data governance,
— S.E. Robinson, Jr. (@SERobinsonJr)
2:48 PM • Jun 17, 2025
Oracle’s enterprise infrastructure reach is massive, and this move supercharges Grok’s ability to scale into the corporate world.
Massive AI developments are occurring in every sector- and we’re still in the early day’s of this revolutionary technology!