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This is hype economics in its purest form: 'paying for itself' is unfalsifiable without any numbers on inference costs versus actual revenue. The underlying idea, however, is worth taking seriously — if agents embedded in X can complete paid tasks like commerce or coding, the unit economics of frontier chatbots stop being pure burn, which no consumer assistant has genuinely achieved yet. On our view, skepticism is warranted until xAI publishes real figures, since serving a frontier model at scale remains enormously expensive. Treat this as a teaser for a future announcement, not a verifiable result.
This really works!
Grok @Bot can pay for itself.

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