He's kicking into x.ai. There are good reasons to think that he bought Twitter to use its massive data-set of human language to train an ai - NOT because he gave/gives a shit about Twitter as a profitable company.
If it becomes a paid competitor to OpenAI, it solves its profitability issues without enhancing "Twitter" as a social media site. Anything he said about improving Twitter was likely a lie designed to prolong usage of the platform and enhance the dataset.
Why would you think access to Twitter users nonsense is in any way an improvement over existing training data let alone enough make spending tens of billions for Twitter a good deal. He bought it because he said stupid shit and when he thought he could back out they were suing him to uphold the deal he made to buy it and they were going to win.
I don't know, I think he was trying to get the price down because why pay more than you have to?
Also, I think a decade's-worth of notable human discourse in discreet packets of n-characters in an already hierarchical organization paired with deep demographic metadata could be seriously valuable.
Platforms like Reddit will never die, regardless what they do wrong. Twitter is the proof
The internet hasn't even been around that long I wonder how long a web platform can even exist? The have certain been generations so far. It feels like we are changing generations now
So there was a thing called Unibird? I'm excited to learn more about operating system history.
Yes, with the most toxic users of all time.