https://minutesof.com/on/xai/ Everyone on the record about xai: 14 verbatim quotes from 5 people, August 2024 to July 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:20 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/f1521d8e-c2a1-41dc-b351-2ebca6de8c5f/ https://minutesof.com/q/f1521d8e-c2a1-41dc-b351-2ebca6de8c5f/ “you guys were the first on liquid cooling with XAI's Colossus, the first large scale 100,000 GPU deployment with liquid cooling, and you've done many more since, and you were the first and everyone else has sort of followed since.” — Dylan Patel, Supermicro Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:08:28 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/08ba00ed-4f3b-440e-aaff-4254135f5030/ https://minutesof.com/q/08ba00ed-4f3b-440e-aaff-4254135f5030/ “I think the first Blackwell model will come from xAI. And the reason for that is just according to Jensen, no one builds data centers faster than Elon.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/4a6d6767-2e27-43f3-b3fb-c234a6bc6a18/ https://minutesof.com/q/4a6d6767-2e27-43f3-b3fb-c234a6bc6a18/ “One, we will see the first models trained on Blackwell in early twenty twenty six. I think the first Blackwell model will come from xAI.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/7ac8b2d1-5cf5-4b2f-9c8e-47b0f6431195/ https://minutesof.com/q/7ac8b2d1-5cf5-4b2f-9c8e-47b0f6431195/ “And if the liquid cooling solution from Super Micro didn't exist, then those servers would be consuming 30% more power. Right?” — Dylan Patel, Supermicro Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:00:47 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/9670f4ca-5b3e-44bf-a674-a7e422907676/ https://minutesof.com/q/9670f4ca-5b3e-44bf-a674-a7e422907676/ “They haven't released a leading edge model, and yet their evaluation's higher than Anthropic today. At least Anthropic's racing, It's Elon, A, and B, they've tackled a problem creatively” — Dylan Patel, No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:01:35 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/ef80dc2d-4fab-4c3c-8060-7f9e75eedb8a/ https://minutesof.com/q/ef80dc2d-4fab-4c3c-8060-7f9e75eedb8a/ “What has xAI actually done to deserve their prior funding rounds? They haven't released a leading edge model, and yet their evaluation's higher than Anthropic today.” — Dylan Patel, No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:01:35 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/c0b52752-79e9-4f45-919f-7a388d7cab11/ https://minutesof.com/q/c0b52752-79e9-4f45-919f-7a388d7cab11/ “If you look at this one out of Elon talking about the X dot AI goal is 50,000,000 in units of H100 equivalent.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:11:15 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/19bb2687-114c-47f5-8cb4-14f6ed6a9075/ https://minutesof.com/q/19bb2687-114c-47f5-8cb4-14f6ed6a9075/ “Well, one, there's a gigawatt natural gas plant Yeah. That helps. Right next door. Right? Two, there's a natural gas line, a main that they tapped, and they set up their own generation capacity on-site.” — Dylan Patel, Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:00:12 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/8e7d8a0c-2204-44fe-ac49-f158eb188d2d/ https://minutesof.com/q/8e7d8a0c-2204-44fe-ac49-f158eb188d2d/ “And he walks in and takes what equate sounds looks like about 10% of the quarter's availability.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:35:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/2c7c1148-3e86-4e73-b57b-a7270a36f52c/ https://minutesof.com/q/2c7c1148-3e86-4e73-b57b-a7270a36f52c/ “A supercomputer that you would build would take normally three years to plan. Right. And then they deliver the equipment and it takes one year to get it all working.” — Jensen Huang, BG2 Pod Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/00d837b3-478e-41b2-b1cd-18e82f06628a/ https://minutesof.com/q/00d837b3-478e-41b2-b1cd-18e82f06628a/ “And because of that, they're able to get enough density that they could effectively make a 100,000 GPU cluster coherent even with Hopper without next generation networking technologies from NVIDIA, Broadcom, and others.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/fb4738e8-409c-43cb-a41b-db079b1e3e9c/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb4738e8-409c-43cb-a41b-db079b1e3e9c/ “And I would say with Elon's unique physical engineering mind, which we've seen play out at SpaceX and Tesla, and now at Neuralink, where he figured out how to miniaturize everything” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/0cfc0642-ca64-4a7f-a032-546fbf63f469/ https://minutesof.com/q/0cfc0642-ca64-4a7f-a032-546fbf63f469/ “And I would say with Elon's unique physical engineering mind, which we've seen play out at SpaceX and Tesla, and now at Neuralink, where he figured out how to miniaturize everything along with really capable teams. I think he rearchitected the x AI data center from first principles in Memphis.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000 xai https://minutesof.com/q/2415f33d-e0fb-48f1-b415-3378566f2026/ https://minutesof.com/q/2415f33d-e0fb-48f1-b415-3378566f2026/ “x AI decided they were gonna build a 100,000 GPU cluster. And I would say with Elon's unique physical engineering mind, which we've seen play out at SpaceX and Tesla, and now at Neuralink, where he figured out how to miniaturize everything along with really capable teams.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000 xai