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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by cft on Friday August 29, 2025 @06:17AM (#45062285)
That applies to only to only San Francisco-based (and French/Chinese) heavily censored communist LLMs.

Grok is willing to provide instructions: https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk%3D_a78b768c-fcee-4029...

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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by hnfong on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:03AM (#45062937)
Almost all companies developing state of the art LLMs are either based in San Francisco (and the surrounding Bay Area), or French or Chinese...

(and as a sibling commenter says, XAI is in the SF Bay Area as well.)

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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by cft on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:17AM (#45063091)
But its owner and ideologue does not live in CA or France or China. There are enough dissident programmers even in SF to stuff xAI
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by JCharante on Friday August 29, 2025 @07:42AM (#45062755)
but isn't xAI SF based? https://x.ai/careers/open-roles
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by immibis on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:53AM (#45064938)
It is. People will come up with any excuse to glaze Elon.
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by maleldil on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:18PM (#45066047)
> censored communist LLMs

Are you seriously calling OpenAI and Anthropic "communist"?

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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by sebastiennight on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:13PM (#45069451)
Let's not feed the troll...
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