WTF is happening at xAI | Sulaiman Ghori

Timestamps: 0:41 WTF is happening at xAI 1:46 Predicting future bottlenecks 3:05 Shredding conventional timelines 4:23 Experience joining xAI 9:23 Bootstrapping off the Tesla network 11:59 What is Macrohard 13:14 How Elon deals w fires 16:30 What it’s like working at xAI 20:33 Cybertruck bet with Elon 21:12 Using 80 mobile generators + battery packs to balance load at their data centers 22:45 How they built Colossus in 122 days 23:35 Work backwards & figure out the highest leverage thing you can be doing 25:51 How xAI hires 30:27 Challenging requirements 32:46 Experimentation 34:55 How Elon recalibrated his timeline estimates 39:15 AI engineers vs AI researchers 40:36 No one tells me ‘no’ 42:09 Everyone’s an engineer 44:06 Why fuzziness between teams is an advantage 48:25 Testing human emulators as employees 50:00 Biggest blunders 53:23 What a meeting w Elon is like 54:22 How Elon gives feedback 56:44 Figuring out ‘what is truth’ for Grokipedia 59:21 What happens when Elon sees wrong Grok outputs on X 1:00:08 What a surge feels like & operating in xAI’s war room 1:02:53 Making fidget spinners & 3D printers in his bedroom 1:08:48 Creating a liquid fuel rocket engine

Fireside chat turned into actual firing…

First and last interview with anyone at xAI

This was a great ‘FIRE’ side chat Iykyk

This man sounds exactly like big head

who's here once they heard the news?

How many NDAs did he violate just for this interview 😂

Great interview - but it got his ass fired.

this man thought that NDA was just vibes...

I guess he was a little too candid

for those who didn't or can't watch the full video here's the possible reasons for his termination: While the video itself was published just before reports of his firing surfaced, several points he discussed likely contributed to his departure from xAI: Leaking Unreleased Project Details: Ghori spoke extensively about "Macro Hard" and the "human emulator" project [10:04]. He explicitly mentioned that xAI had not yet detailed these plans publicly [12:45]. Discussing trade secrets and the strategic roadmap for a million-unit deployment is a major violation of typical Silicon Valley NDAs. Revealing Internal Metrics & Efficiency: He shared specific internal data, such as the company’s valuation of code commits, stating they estimate $2.5 million of value per commit [26:40]. Sharing internal financial/productivity metrics is often grounds for termination. Disclosing "War Room" Logistics: He described the internal office environment in detail, including the fact that the team moved into the company gym to work because they outgrew their original war room [01:00:57], and mentioned internal "virtual employees" (AI agents) that report to him [49:42]. Unauthorized Public Relations: Elon Musk generally prefers to control the "reveal" of new products (like the Tesla compute leasing idea) himself via X or official events. Ghori’s hour-long deep dive into the company’s "secret sauce" essentially front-ran Musk's own PR strategy.

"Sonny, don't ever tell someone outside the family what we're thinking."

It almost sounds like interviewer wants to advertise himself and knows he’s leaving

This is great man. Sick of hearing from the same founders. Let's hear from the people actually building the thing.

Thanks Ti! Was very fun