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Elon Musk on Thursday slammed Anthropic, accusing the unreal intelligence (AI) firm’s fashions of being “misanthropic and evil.”
Musk’s feedback got here in response to a submit on X by which Anthropic — led by CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei and greatest recognized for its Claude household of enormous language fashions — introduced it had closed a $30 billion funding spherical at a $380 billion post-money valuation.
In his reply, which drew not less than 1 million views inside hours, Musk alleged the corporate’s AI programs exhibit racial and demographic bias.
“Your AI hates Whites & Asians, particularly Chinese language, heterosexuals and males. That is misanthropic and evil,” Musk wrote. “Repair it.
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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks in the course of the World Financial Discussion board annual assembly in Davos Jan. 22, 2026. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“Frankly, I don’t assume there may be something you are able to do to flee the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being Misanthropic. You had been doomed to this destiny once you selected your identify. The Identify of the Wind.”
The Tesla CEO’s AI firm, xAI, and its chatbot Grok compete immediately with Anthropic’s Claude fashions.
Musk has beforehand been essential of Anthropic, together with after studies final month that Anthropic minimize off xAI’s entry to Claude fashions, in accordance with The Financial Instances.
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A smartphone display screen exhibits a folder containing AI purposes Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek. (Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“Not fairly on programming, however it can excel in different areas. Anthropic has achieved one thing particular with coding,” Musk wrote on X Jan. 15. “It was a useful motivator that they minimize us off [xAI] and never good for his or her karma.”
In a Jan. 30 submit on X, Musk appeared to equally mock Anthropic’s identify.
“All the time value remembering that destiny loves irony. Probably the most ironic final result for a corporation named [Anthropic] could be that it’s the most misanthropic!”
Anthropic’s newest funding spherical ranks among the many largest non-public tech fundraising rounds to this point, second solely to OpenAI, in accordance to CNBC.
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The emblem of Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude displayed on a smartphone. (Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Musk is equally engaged in an ongoing feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The 2 traded barbs on X final month after Musk responded to a submit alleging that OpenAI’s ChatGPT had been linked to a number of deaths, Enterprise Insider reported.
“Don’t let your family members use ChatGPT,” Musk wrote.
Altman pushed again, taking purpose at Tesla’s Autopilot expertise.
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Musk, Altman and Anthropic couldn’t be instantly reached by FOX Enterprise for remark.
