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a real human bean. building intelligence @xAI

San Francisco

Joined February 2023

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@devindkim

Devin Kim

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We're hiring technical staff for the Human Data team at @xAI ! This team is responsible for building the machine that builds the machine - all the systems required to collect human data that the next generation of frontier models will train on. We recently raised $6B, and the

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Devin Kim

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much of grok-2 was coded in a conference room that barely fits 30 people. today @xAI shares its newborn baby with the world! incredibly proud of the work this team has done.

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everyone i’ve met from @X in the past month is kind and very hardworking, with no exceptions. only 200 engineers total! new grads should consider joining this team instead of the typical boomer tech companies

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Two years ago today, Elon Musk signed a merger agreement to acquire Twitter, marking a significant milestone in the platform's history

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coworker: you haven’t experienced a real jump scare until you’re playing on one of these and elon comes up behind you 😂

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Advice on applications to @xAI after screening hundreds of candidates: 1. We ask "what exceptional work have you done?" on your application. Surprisingly, many applicants choose to leave this section blank or vaguely describe their last role. This is worth spending time on. 2.

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we’re building the gigafactory of compute! future models will take over 100x the compute of current frontier models to train, and very few teams are positioned to keep pace. join @xAI to help us understand the universe!

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@AravSrinivas Given the pace of technology improvement, it’s not worth sinking 1GW of power into H100s. The @xAI 100k H100 liquid-cooled training cluster will be online in a few months. Next big step would probably be ~300k B200s with CX8 networking next summer.

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this team truly does not rest until the work is done... shoutout to our insane post-training team.

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Elon Musk

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Grok 2 beta release soon

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excited to share that ive joined @xai ! its only been 2 weeks, but the team is insanely stacked and the rate of progress is astounding. 📈📈 im looking forward to learning a lot and sharing everything i know about data and post-training with the team 🥳

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Developer Challenge complete! Here’s a photo of the winners and first public Grok API users 😊 This talented group showed what’s possible when building on models with a focus on real-time information. Thanks @XDevelopers for inviting @xai , I’m 𝕏-cited about this partnership

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the most insane IRL any% speedrun happening in this datacenter xAI will have the most compute of any organization in the world

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how june started & how it’s going come 🧑‍🍳 with us at xAI & 𝕏 if you like building & running the biggest computers in the world!

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there are two types: teams that ship fast, and teams that don’t. join the fast team.

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Elon Musk

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Nice work by @xAI team, @X team, @Nvidia & supporting companies getting Memphis Supercluster training started at ~4:20am local time. With 100k liquid-cooled H100s on a single RDMA fabric, it’s the most powerful AI training cluster in the world!

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Devin Kim

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maybe the real strawberry was the friends we made along the way 🏛️

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it’s official! super fortunate to be part of this world class team—big news soon. back to building…🧑🏻‍💻

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xAI is pleased to announce..

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Happy birthday @xAI 🎂

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Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality

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this is how @VastoLorde95 produces the engineering output of 100 people

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@XDevelopers You know what they say about big hands?

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good morning! another day of trying to figure out what the hell is really going on… 👽

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if you understand the problem well enough, the universe permits you to dream in code

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Devin Kim

2 months

Exciting times ahead for yAI

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Elon Musk

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The trend is very strong that any AI company’s name that can be inverted will be inverted

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sus-column-r is a conspiracy theory @VastoLorde95

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@elonmusk ... i was collecting data for grok

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3 months

they say not to deploy new features on fridays, but its technically 1am on a saturday so your rules cannot stop me

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catered chipotle for lunch is S-tier hackathon food @XDevelopers 📈

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don't believe the hype when you are ahead, don't believe the fud when you are behind

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knock knock who's there?

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congrats our friends at @X for their absolutely based new hire! its time to build 🔨

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it's me! the xAI team is here today to help people start grokkin' come visit us at the desk 👽

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𝕏 Developer Challenge event is now in motion. Exciting day ahead!

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neuralink compression adventure comes to an end with a 48.96 ratio on a batch of 5 files spent a good 30 minutes confused since the prompt mentions a 20kHz, 10b resolution 😢 turns out, the actual data was 19.5kHz, 16b resolution... may revisit at some point in the future when

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so many times i spent hours at night trying to fix a bug without succeeding, only to figure it out instantly in the morning... sometimes, just go to sleep

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@xai Example of a new role where the only requirement really is to be an exceptional full-stack engineer with a history of having worked on hard problems: DMs are open!

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Software Engineer - AI Tooling

Bay Area (San Francisco and Palo Alto)

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they got tired of losing smh

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coworker: you haven’t experienced a real jump scare until you’re playing on one of these and elon comes up behind you 😂

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hard work and ingenuity is abundant, the bottleneck is courage why expect the dream outcome without taking on risk?

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i let grok take the wheel for dinner choice tonight, pretty good!

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really feeling the agi today

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4 months

oops! we're not at "fortune-telling ai" quite yet

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Marques Brownlee

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LOL @ Twitter's trending topics being summarized by Grok, and just straight up predicting the entire Apple event tomorrow

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can make you very unpopular if done wrong, which is easy to do when the bar is extremely high. the best leaders i've worked with led by example and motivated others to do their best. one of the biggest learnings for me over the past year, including at @xAI

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sarah guo // conviction

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it is uncomfortable to hold the bar high enough for an organization to be great demanding excellence, settling into the discomfort of a higher bar, and remaining malcontent about results is the only path to greatness it is not for everyone, including everyone technically good

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another late night in the office with me and my weirdly shaped table

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its koding time

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anyone can deal with the challenges of today if there is a compelling tomorrow

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Nvidia t-shirt appears to be the latest designer clothes trend in the bay area

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HMMM there's a new option on the chatgpt cancellation survey that i don't recognize... 🕶️ #grok

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an interesting consequence of optimizing an AI to be truth-seeking: you can ask if it’s conscious

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3 months

update: i now have my own arcade machine!

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they got tired of losing smh

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good god i love x the everything app. new york times could never report this quickly and accurately

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@X disclaimer: the soda machine has been a little warm for a while but i think we are fixing it 🤡

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@yacineMTB congrats, and welcome! there is a huge extended family and many crazy adventures awaiting you

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aint no way this was half a decade ago 🥲

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#AvengersEndgame was released 5 years ago today

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@vl1mki not bad at all but there’s room for improvement

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I was experimenting with context window buffers in ChatGPT and discovered the input: &.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&.&. ...results in completely wacky outputs

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deeper understanding is faster debugging you dont always know the right answer, but you know exactly where not to look re-reading every line of code is desperation

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it's a marathon, not a race except the best runners are still running each mile under 4:30 💀

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@AndreJ999839 @xai to accelerate human scientific discovery and ensure a positive future! there will be some stepping stones until grok starts exploring the universe by itself.

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@AutismCapital @xai I still read every application but skipping based on this criteria seems reasonable at some point

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4 months

no internet lookup, no IDEs, C++ someone give me the date and location? human coding > AI (for now)

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@devindkim @itsandrewgao @cognition_labs devin vs devin heads up coding competition wen

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Look between X and B on your keyboard. … now share what you saw with @xai 😂😂 we’re hiring!

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Devin Kim

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"It's Mee-straal, not Mistral" 🙄

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Devin Kim

4 months

Friend and I were debating whether selecting "copper" in a game of Codenames for "valuable" was valid. Google search just shows you whatever you want to see. Too woke!

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hodl ❌ buidl ✅

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@nitriku hopefully before the coffee runs out

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Devin Kim

3 months

alright perhaps technology has gone too far

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loltyler1

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💪 I TURNED MYSELF INTO AN AI BUD THAT WILL MAKE YOU GET GOOD AT LEAGUE !!! INTRODUCING MY STARTUP @backseatgg .. () GET GAINS IN GAME AND JOIN THE SQUAD TODAY !!!

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console.log('"✅✅✅modelResponse: ", modelResponse); using emojis in my debugging print statements to find them more easily. zoomer thing, or just me?

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evolution made big things become small, and we are in the robot dinosaur era with giant gpu clusters maybe if you ask nicely it will let you ride it 🦕

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👽 c u

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@AndrewRulnick bold move to skip to the final boss

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@yo_yes0 @VastoLorde95 rest is for the dead

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Grok excels at real-world understanding compared to Claude Opus :) @eli_lifland is a good friend who has influenced much of my thinking on AI safety, check out Grok’s summary!

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Eli Lifland

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Claude Opus consistently thinks I'm cofounder of @AnthropicAI and maybe CEO. @Dario_Amodei can I take this as a job offer?

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@iruletheworldmo 🖤

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@rpoo i've tried everything but having a widget on my homescreen for Apple notes is the only thing that's stuck

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@goodside Algorithms 🌈

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@TheGregYang 🔥🔥❤️🔥🔥

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@GavinElwes @elonmusk i will be taking challenges for a ryu mirror on SF2

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@SolworksEnergy @xai yeah it's not very funny after reading the 100th one

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@HeinrichKuttler @elonmusk @ibab @xai Welcome! Super excited

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@ChrSzegedy @VastoLorde95 cracked engineer in shiny new office holding a cult symbol of frontier model performance, 3:4 aspect ratio, 24mm camera

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@Tarundeep55 @xai we do not auto reject

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@Xanares_ @xai it's difficult to fake the experience of having solved a really hard problem, the story falls apart pretty quickly.

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@usrbinishan yes, the issue was trying to read in 10 bits at a time

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@TheGregYang 🛼🛼

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@MarkZuckss @X hypothetically if the team had me strapped to a chair forcing me to tweet, what would be the best way to let everyone know?

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@_WEEXIAO 1v1 me

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@drew_carson_ai @xai not too different from humans - given all information available and using reasoning, what’s the probability that something is true?

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@pradiptainspace @AutismCapital @xai myself or some other member of technical staff will read the applications - I personally read every resume on the open roles I am prioritizing hiring for

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i feel like it’s possible to predict who scores at the bottom vs the top

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Paul Graham

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I got 25/36 on this facial expression reading test. I was curious how Jessica would do, so I sent it to her. She got 36/36. She really is the social radar. (via @markessien )

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@imPenny2x a little unhinged

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@calwoodford i would like to keep tabs on the possible transitions between no -> im not sure -> probably -> etc. as capabilities progress

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@rpoo supercomputing as an emergent phenomenon gang

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@mikejchaves @xai best of luck

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follow @goodside for the best parenting advice

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Whoa, I just realized that raising a kid is basically 18 years of prompt engineering 🤯

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@steventey @jasbindar98 @OpenAI @vercel the price is double per 1k tokens

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Simple and flexible. Only pay for what you use.

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@itsandrewgao @cognition_labs me to scott

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@ChrisDungeon time to get paid to sleep

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@timhulse @xai yeah, can be unfortunately taken as a red flag. great problem solvers are continually coming up with new solutions and don't proclaim every new invention - it's just part of the job.

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congrats to the meta team! crazy to see gpt-4 level models starting to become open source

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Andrej Karpathy

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Congrats to @AIatMeta on Llama 3 release!! 🎉 Notes: Releasing 8B and 70B (both base and finetuned) models, strong-performing in their model class (but we'll see when the rankings come in @ @lmsysorg :)) 400B is still training, but already encroaching

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daily affirmations in SF nowadays

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I will not eat the bugs I will not live in a pod I will not ride the robo taxi

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@itsandrewgao @XDevelopers @X @grok @xai @elonmusk awesome job! congrats :)

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people who work on infra are heroes

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@yo_yes0 what you study matters less than how you study. learn how to learn anything fast!

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@Joonzzy @X 😳😑😳😑 my code is throwing errors please send assistance

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@HarmPersonal @xai great people can come from anywhere!

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