Musk says Grok Bot’s costs are ‘unsustainably high,’ while OpenAI admits Dots are ‘compute heavy.’ Is the personal AI agent push dead on arrival?
Source: Fortune ·
At a dinner in NYC, the head of ChatGPT lays out OpenAI's vision for agentic AI, but it faces some serious challenges.
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The success of Meta’s Muse personal assistant has convinced the AI industry that personal agents that proactively complete tasks are the next logical evolution of the technology, but it’s unclear if there is enough compute to power them—at least in the timeframe that these companies are betting on. This week, Elon Musk said the cost of running Grok Bot, the personal AI assistant SpaceX introduced in August, is “unsustainably high relative to revenue.” He suggested the company was throttling back the compute allocation for the technology, causing users to hit their limits faster. Last night, at an intimate dinner with reporters in New York City, the head of ChatGPT’s consumer business said that OpenAI’s Dots assistants are “on the compute heavy side.” Each Dot assistant, OpenAI’s Adam Fry said, has its own cloud computer, which it uses to execute tasks on the user’s behalf, accessing any accounts and services it has been given access to. Dots are helping people read and respond to…