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Toby Pohlen
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Toby Pohlen
@TobyPhln
London, UK
Joined December 2012
- I like our mission statement "understand the universe". To me, “universe” is a metaphor for “everything”, meaning the AI’s knowledge should be all-encompassing. “understand” means that we not only build AI for humans, but specifically to advance human understanding.
- I love working at @xai. No pointless internal politics and virtually no meetings - just coding and shipping. I'll do another hiring push in London this month. Get your applications in now: x.ai/careers.
- You can now try Grok 3 for free here on X and on grok.com. We also released a blog post with benchmarks and examples. x.ai/blog/grok-3This is it: The world’s smartest AI, Grok 3, now available for free (until our servers melt). Try Grok 3 now: x.com/i/grok X Premium+ and SuperGrok users will have increased access to Grok 3, in addition to early access to advanced features like Voice Mode
00:00grok.comGrokGrok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X. - Creating a scalable API from scratch was a massive effort. Here are some of my favourite engineering highlights.
- Immediate API roadmap: - API playground - Better docs - Auto-upgrade of rate limits - More serving capacity - Vision model (later this week) - Tokenizer API - SDKs Planned but release date tbd: prompt caching, batch inference, fine tuning, realtime info.
- Many people fail to appreciate that the engineering objective isn't just to make this work. They're making this work at volume production scale, low cost, and production-level reliability. It's infinitely harder than creating a one-off prototype.Was just getting warmed up
00:00 - Here's a brain dump of things I worry/think about atm. AI is getting pretty good, but human-AI bandwidth is excruciatingly low. Compared to Google Search, AI queries and answers have lower entropy and higher latency, which negatively impacts effective bandwidth.
- Sounds enticing? Join us! Looking specifically for experienced C++/Rust backend engineers for grok.com and the API in the bay area: job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/47005… The first interview only takes 15 minutes. Here are some of my retired questions for this role & interview:no pms, no jira tickets- join xAI & build product in the arena for the peoplegrok.comGrokGrok is an AI assistant built by xAI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
- A few days before we announced @xai, Elon invited the founding team and our partners to Starbase. This is also where we agreed on our mission statement. In the evening we all had an amazing dinner together and talked about engineering until late. One of my favourite memories.
- We have a similar feature on our API console. The CMD+K menu is actually connected to Grok and it allows you to get stuff done more quickly. (video is sped up)
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00:24Dynamic prompt field - When we started the company a year ago, our objective was to achieve three advantages: A data advantage, a talent advantage, and a compute advantage. Starting today, we have all three.
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