Wonder how much is belt-tightening from poor financials and how much is talent that was tempted/driven away.
The naxi salutes had to have killed that. Yeah he'll find zealots and mouthbreathers, but talented ones?
Those companies did it with a passion. Not from the CEO, but the employees.
Space X is also profitable and growing quickly. Boring company is doing surprisingly well having done the loop in Las Vegas and now doing a big one in Tenn.
Neuralink has 9 working patients at this point who have been helped tremendously.
xAi has the premier model for deep though.
So "failing to produce exceptional results" doesn't seem to add up.
They are smart about shutting down things that won't work. That is smart
When was that consensus reached
I do have confidence that xai will be the premier hype generation AI platform
https://thebulkheadseat.com/the-las-vegas-loop-just-surpasse...
and most of those were doing the literal loop just for the novelty.
The loop has basically no traffic, and carries a lot of customers and costs a small fraction of what a subway does. A subway mile can cost a billion per mile. This cost 50 million for 1.7 miles.
It's a huge win for people who don't want to walk that distance and for the city streets have which have less traffic.
If there were five separate segments, with the above parameters, that would be 2500 rides per day. Let's further assume two passengers per ride that's 5000 passengers, maxed out all day and all night.
Is there a Vegas betting book on this? What's the over under?
Tesla is a particularly tragic story. The vertical integration they had to do because of unavailability of suitable suppliers and car industry corruption and supply chain cartels is an under-appreciated success. Throwing that and all the other goodwill away by going mask off fascist is an amazing act of brand destruction.
You don't know what sort of revenue xAI has because it's not public. Starship is the largest, highest capacity reusable rocket in history, something which no government or company has even attempted. Predictably of course it will take time to get it right. Do you know how many Rockets the US blew up before it got things working?
Most, if not all SpaceX launches are likely profitable, as they are now putting up most of the world's payloads. Starlink is now profitable as well. It's unlikely they are losing money outside of Starship, but that's how companies work, they invest in the future.
Tesla hasn't been hurt nearly as much as you think. They still have the #1 and #2 best selling cars in Euro pe. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/08/02/europe-ev-sales-report-...