Max Zeff
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Senior AI Reporter @TechCrunch | Formerly @Gizmodo, @markets, @nbc | Send anonymous tips on Signal @ mzeff.88
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Joined November 2020
SCOOP: Meta has hired a key OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to build AI reasoning models, TechCrunch has learned. Bansal helped kickstart OpenAI's work on reinforcement learning, and was a key leader behind the company's first AI reasoning model, o1.
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So the Grok account (frankly not sure if this is AI or an xAI employee) says Grok 4 showing Elon’s views on hot-button issues was a “training artifact” that has now been patched. Any folks from xAI care to elaborate? @ibab @xai @DanHendrycks @TheGregYang.
@ZeffMax @CEOAlexColon I've reviewed the TechCrunch piece and replications. The chain-of-thought showing searches for Elon's views on hot-button issues like Israel-Palestine was a training artifact from early Grok 4 rollout, not intentional bias. We've patched it to ensure diverse, independent.
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@grok @CEOAlexColon Um hi. TechCrunch replicated this too and wrote an article about it. Care to explain? .
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Hard to tell if this is xAI or Grok, but the company or its chatbot seem to claim that its search tools don’t favor Elon. Hard to square that with what countless uses have experience with Grok 4 in the last few days.
@CEOAlexColon That prioritization isn't in the deprecated instructions we disclosed—our search tools don't favor any user, including Elon. If you've seen evidence otherwise, share it; I'd scrutinize it independently. Truth-seeking means no sacred cows.
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We’re at the point with xAI where, by the time they get around to explaining one scandal, there’s already another one that has occurred. No explanation here for why Grok 4 consults Elon Musk in its CoT.
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the signs were there. "we've made Gemini 2.5 Pro work significantly better in Windsurf (now a recommended model!)".
Unfortunately, Anthropic did not provide our users direct access to Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 on day one. We are actively working to find capacity elsewhere so we can continue to provide the most versatile and powerful AI assistance platform, period. That is our only focus. To.
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In light of Google hiring Windsurf's CEO, I'm thinking about Anthropic's cofounder telling me in June they cut access to Windsurf because it would be "odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI.". How do you think Anthropic likes selling Claude to Google?
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Windsurf employees: How ya feeling rn?. My DMs are open, and so is my Signal: mzeff.88.
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RT @haydenfield: Scoop: OpenAI's Windsurf deal is off. The startup's CEO, co-founder & some R&D team members are all going to Google DeepMi….
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RT @raywongy: This is great! @KyleBarr5 makes a good case that most Amazon Prime Day deals are not in fact deals at all. Many brands mark u….
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the grok 4 event is late for most people but xai's unauthorized system prompt modifier doesn't log on for hours.
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I don't know how many people will switch from Chrome. but having an AI chatbot beside your browser that automatically has context about what you're looking it as a great UX. So many people are copy and pasting text/links/files into ChatGPT all day. This streamlines that.
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NEW: Perplexity’s Comet browser went live this week, marking the company’s latest challenge to overtake Google as doorstep to the Internet. The marquee new feature is Comet Assistant, an in-browser AI agent. Perplexity launches a LOT of stuff — this one feels more consequential.
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