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In the mansion of the Frontiner building in San Francisco, the party under the night is changing flavor.

There is no champagne tower and no drugs here. Accompanied by low-key party music, a group of tech elites is gathered around the table, skillfully mixing a white powder from China with sterile water, then injecting the needle into their abdomen.

This is not a drug use scene; this is Silicon Valley's latest social totem: the Peptide Party.
Extreme regulatory arbitrage: 1/10 of the price

Why are Silicon Valley elites scrambling for Chinese peptides? The core lies in extreme calculations of efficiency and cost. In the United States, legitimate GLP-1 drugs (glucagon-like peptide-1, such as Wegovy) are hard to come by and can cost over a thousand dollars a month. However, if purchased directly from Chinese factories through gray channels, the research-grade raw materials only cost between 10 to 100 dollars, a tenth of the legitimate price. Customs data corroborates this frenzy: in the first three quarters of 2025, the amount of such compounds imported by the United States from China doubled to 328 million dollars. Although it is labeled strictly forbidden for human use, it is precisely this that they see as a delicacy.

Preface
Sulaiman has been fired. This former core engineer of xAI touched Musk's sore spot by saying too much in an interview.
👉 The interview video is as follows, please watch it as soon as possible to avoid deletion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN60eJr4Ps&t=41s
But thanks to his unfiltered speech, we finally saw the trump card of xAI. This is not a step-by-step product roadmap, but a war plan filled with violent aesthetics, gray areas, and wartime logic. Musk did not intend to roll model parameters within the established rules with OpenAI and Google; he wanted to flip the table directly.