Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

The Prophet and the Platform

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Two-Front War for the Soul of AI

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Matt McDonagh
Aug 02, 2025
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We recently did a deep dive on Grok Heavy that generated a controversy. Some people think its brilliant. Others, not so much.

But the reaction to Grok Heavy has got me thinking.

In the middle of the night, lines of Python blur together, forming a chaotic dance of brackets and variables.

In the dark hours recently I was deep in the weeds of a machine learn…

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