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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by tibbar on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:41PM (#47370952)
I think OpenAI is more of an aesthetic. Very... Apple-like, polished, with an eye towards making really cool stuff. And aesthetics are a type of philosophy.

This is less noble than how Anthropic presents themselves but still much more attractive to many than XAI.

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by tokioyoyo on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:15PM (#47371810)
The feeling on the street is that Anthropic IS the Apple of the AIs.
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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by tibbar on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:09PM (#47372927)
Come now, surely Anthropic is a premium Linux distribution.
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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by ysleepy on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:57AM (#47374054)
And Apple a premium Unix derivative?
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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by j_maffe on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:11PM (#47371253)
> aesthetics are a type of philosophy.

What philosophy is that?

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by dbspin on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:18PM (#47371316)
It's literally called aesthetics, the philosophical approach is the original meaning of the word - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

Properly, focusing on aesthetics as an ethic would be practicing the philosophy of aestheticism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism

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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by hoppyhoppy2 on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:17PM (#47371308)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
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Re:Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effor... by energy123 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:08AM (#47373244)
To a researcher, the aesthetic is more like Bell Labs, with many research teams working with some autonomy, which is why the public naming of model releases appears chaotic. Very different to the top-down approach of Apple.
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