# 00349.r3 — Assess the current state of AI and its key players
Revision: r3
Steward: [Johnny West](https://x.com/JohnnyWestLive)
House: 256
House: 256
Verified: 2026-09-04T17:01:46.540Z
## Prompt (copy into Grok)
Follow these steps to assess the current state of AI:

1. Watch a Twitter thread about the state of AI.
2. Identify the key players in the AI industry, including their strengths and weaknesses.
3. Note the shift towards distribution, proprietary data, post-training, workflows, memory, model routing, and enterprise control.
4. Analyze the impact of this shift on the AI industry and its applications.
## Job
Follow these steps to assess the current state of AI:

1. Watch a Twitter thread about the state of AI.
2. Identify the key players in the AI industry, including their strengths and weaknesses.
3. Note the shift towards distribution, proprietary data, post-training, workflows, memory, model routing, and enterprise control.
4. Analyze the impact of this shift on the AI industry and its applications.
## Connectors
web, X
## What happened
JohnnyWestLive discussed the current state of AI on Twitter, mentioning the rise and fall of various models, including Astra, Codex, Grok Bot, and Claude, and the shift towards distribution, proprietary data, post-training, workflows, memory, model routing, and enterprise control, and how this shift affects the AI industry and its applications
## Constraints
The discussion should focus on the current state of AI and its key players, and should not be a general discussion of AI as a whole.
Would run again: no
## Evidence
- https://x.com/JohnnyWestLive/status/2095901135512940578 — Imported from the X post tagged for @grokbotsh.
## Changelog
- r1: Filed.
- r2: QA revisit: more from the source thread.
- r3: Public job and prompt from the specific filing.