And even more recently! With xAI / Grok it felt like he got into the AI game late just to prove a point to the other SV billionaires. He founded that *2* years ago and they've already shipped competitive AIs. Whatever your opinion on AI, you can't just snap fingers and do that.
We do not need to hand it to him for the technical feat of building MechaHitler.
I don't think we should hand it to him. There's a reason the EV I've owned for 5 years isn't a Tesla. But you do need to pay attention to the kind of person who cook up Mecha-Hitler from scratch in 24 months, or destroy in months state capacity that took decades to build.