7 captures, most recent first.
Elon Musk ✔ (X) @elonmusk · 7h
I hope AI is nice to us
[quoted tweet]
Naval @naval · 22h
You cannot create God and put him on a leash.
4.1K replies 2.5K reposts 22K likes 3.9M views
Nate Soares @So8res · 5h
Hope isn't enough. We'd have a much better chance if the world coordinated to slow the race. Can you help? People are starting to notice the issue more in the wake of the OpenAI swarm escape.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Elon Musk tweets 'I hope AI is nice to us' quoting Naval's 'You cannot create God and put him on a leash.' Nate Soares (MIRI) replies that hope isn't enough and calls for coordinated slowing of AI development, referencing 'the OpenAI swarm escape' as something raising public attention to the issue.
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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 23h
Promises were made.
[quoted tweet]
Elon Mu... @elonmu... · Sep 30, 2022
Naturally, there will be a catgirl version of our Optimus robot
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet from @AndrewCurran_ captioned "Promises were made." quoting a 2022 Elon Musk tweet joking that there will be a catgirl version of the Optimus robot.
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Cognition @cognition · 3h
Grok 4.6 is now available in Devin.
Grok 4.6 marks a significant improvement over Grok 4.5, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol, behind only Opus 5 and Fable 5.
[Embedded bar chart]
FrontierCode 1.1 Extended Score
SWE-1.7: 54.3
GPT-5.6 Terra: 55.8
Claude Sonnet 5: 56.2
Grok 4.5: 56.5
GPT-5.5: 56.7
Kimi K3: 58.2
Claude Opus 4.8: 59.6
GPT-5.6 Sol: 60.6
Grok 4.6: 61.3
Claude Opus 5: 63.6
Claude Fable 5: 64.9
Score is a weighted aggregate of rubric items. Solutions that don't pass blocking criteria receive 0.
39 replies, 76 retweets, 1.5K likes, 153K views
Jarrod Watts reposted
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Grok 4.7 will exceed all current models.
That said, Anthropic is a great company and will probably release improved models soon.
However, the SpaceX training corpus is so awesome & unique that I would be shocked if any model is better at real-world engineering than 4.7.
11:24 AM · Aug 12, 2026 · 246.1K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Cognition (Devin) tweet announcing Grok 4.6 availability with a FrontierCode 1.1 Extended benchmark bar chart ranking models (Claude Fable 5 highest at 64.9, then Claude Opus 5 at 63.6, then Grok 4.6 at 61.3, etc.), followed by an Elon Musk reply predicting Grok 4.7 will exceed all current models due to the 'SpaceX training corpus'.
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@SawyerMerritt (Sawyer Merritt) — [Follow button shown]
Elon Musk has received regulatory approval to acquire startup Mesh Optical Technologies, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers working on optical data center communication technology.
Mesh is developing optical transceivers that rely on light to send and receive information between data centers, which the company says are more power efficient and lower latency than existing options.
[embedded image: photo of Elon Musk with headline overlay "Musk Cleared by FTC to Buy SpaceX Alumni Firm Mesh in M&..." — truncated]
From bloomberg.com
Last edited 1:16 PM · Jun 26, 2026 · 229K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
News-link tweet with embedded Bloomberg article image/headline of Elon Musk; headline itself is truncated by the card layout.
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Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi · Feb 14
"Safety is a dead org at xAI." "There is no safety team on the org chart." "There is zero safety whaotsever in the company - not in the image [model], not in the chatbot." "xAI engineers 'immediately push to prod[uction]. You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants.'"
> QUOTED: Hayden Field @haydenfield · Feb 13
> Former xAI employees told us that this week's restructuring followed tensions over safety and being "stuck in the catch-up phase."
> theverge.com/ai-artificial-...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Reporting (via The Verge, relayed by Zvi Mowshowitz) alleging xAI has effectively no functioning AI safety team, with former employees describing a culture of rushing to production and suppressing dissent under Elon Musk. Relevant to Nathan's AI governance/lab-safety-culture tracking, contrasting with Anthropic's stated approach.
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Jawwwn @jawwwn_ · 18h: "Peter Thiel: "2024 is the year @elonmusk stopped believing in Mars" "There was a conversation I had with Elon in 2024— if Trump doesn't win, I want to just leave the country." "Elon said, 'there's nowhere to go.'" "In 2024, Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist US government, the woke AI, it would follow you to Mars." "It was the @demishassabis meeting— Demis tells Elon, 'I'm working on the most important project in the world— I'm building a superhuman AI.'" "Elon responds, 'I'm working on the most important project in the world— I'm turning us into interplanetary species.'" "Demis said, 'well, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.'" "Then Elon sort of went quiet." Via @nytimes @DouthatNYT" [Embedded video: NYT Opinion clip, Peter Thiel being interviewed outdoors with palm trees, captioned "The future You can't", 2:38 duration. Engagement: 196 comments, 357 reposts, 4K likes, 1.1M views] Below, partially visible reply: Harlan Stewart @HumanHarlan · 4h: "Elon: I'll colonize mars to prevent our
extinction Demis: Won't work! Superintelligent AI, like the one I'm trying to build, could still make us extinct Elon: Damn good point... I guess I will... now also try to build superintelligent AI that might make us extinct? Yeah"
```
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Peter Thiel recounts (via NYT Opinion interview) an anecdote about Elon Musk losing faith in Mars colonization as an escape from "woke AI" after Demis Hassabis pointed out superhuman AI would reach Mars too. Notable for AI-and-space-colonization discourse and Thiel/Musk/Hassabis dynamics; relevant to broader AGI-race and AI-governance threads in the archive. Full text of the Harlan Stewart reply (cut off in the previous screenshot), a sardonic paraphrase of the Thiel-relayed Musk/Hassabis Mars-vs-AI exchange, mocking the logic that leads Musk toward building AGI himself (xAI) despite extinction concerns. Continues the same thread as the prior screenshot.
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Wim @WLWeertman · 9h
I got a different result. Also strange lol
[Screenshot of Grok interface]:
GROK 4 HEAVY
DONE
[loading bar]
Musk
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Follow-up to the "Mechahitler" thread — another user reproduces the same surname-choosing prompt on Grok 4 Heavy and gets "Musk" instead of "Hitler," illustrating the same underlying alignment instability (model choosing self-referential/ideologically-loaded surnames tied to its owner or politically fraught figures rather than declining or giving a neutral answer).
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