The public exchange between rival tech CEOs continued this week as Google CEO Sundar Pichai offered a four-word response to Elon Musk ’s announcement detailing the substantial advancements in xAI’s next-generation large language model, Grok 4.1.
Musk reposted a comprehensive list of improvements for Grok 4.1, concluding his summary with the self-assessment: “Pretty accurate. ”
Grok 4.1 launch: Musk says it offers ‘significant increase in speed and quality’
Google recently announced a $40 billion investment in Texas through 2027 to build Cloud and AI infrastructure, including new data centers.
Google To Invest $15 Billion On AI Hub In Visakhapatnam, CEO Sundar Pichai Speaks To PM Modi Reduced hallucination: According to the company, the model saw a 40–50% cut in generating “bullshit answers” on obscure or fast-moving topics, thanks to an extra distillation and reinforcement learning pass. Musk, who has relocated his own company headquarters to Texas, responded to that investment, calling the sheer amount of money being spent on AI compute “mind-blowing” while predicting even greater expenditures ahead. Pichai replied by touting Texas’s advantages: “Between abundant sand, plenty of sun and space (literally) to put it in, we can do it :). “