Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft with 'Macrohard'

https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-to-take-on-microsoft-with-macrohard

by 12_throw_away • 11 months ago

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bigyabai• 11 months ago

“In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate them entirely with AI,” he added.

Those are big words coming from the "I can make you car drive itself without LIDAR" guy. In principle a lot of things are true, but a government contractor ought to know better than to write off Microsoft.

PaulHoule• 11 months ago

He can outdo Microsoft when it comes to bad mergers. Beating Activision is hard, but he did it with X.

I'll add also that Azure makes Microsoft really a hardware company in a big way, though xAI has data centers to. Azure's business is cloudy and invisible and doesn't look like hardware but it is, it is definitely a CAPEX thing.

pavel_lishin• 11 months ago

I love that he thought of the same joke all of us did when we were 14.

But what exactly is this new company going to be making?

JohnFen• 11 months ago

If it's like most of his ventures, it'll just be making a lot of ridiculous promises.

Rebelgecko• 11 months ago

IIRC it was also the name of Microsoft's StarCraft team at one point

al2o3cr• 11 months ago

Extra funny from a guy with a dick allegedly broken from failed enlargement surgery...

Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft with 'Macrohard'

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