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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 put up on X during which Anthropic — led by CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei and finest identified for its Claude household of huge language fashions — introduced it had closed a $30 billion funding spherical at a $380 billion post-money valuation.
In his reply, which drew a minimum of 1 million views inside hours, Musk alleged the corporate’s AI techniques 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 Photos / Getty Photos)
“Frankly, I don’t suppose there’s something you are able to do to flee the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being Misanthropic. You had been doomed to this destiny whenever you selected your identify. The Title of the Wind.”
The Tesla CEO’s AI firm, xAI, and its chatbot Grok compete instantly with Anthropic’s Claude fashions.
Musk has beforehand been vital of Anthropic, together with after experiences final month that Anthropic minimize off xAI’s entry to Claude fashions, in line with The Financial Instances.
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A smartphone display reveals a folder containing AI functions Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek. (Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
“Not fairly on programming, however it should excel in different areas. Anthropic has performed 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 put up on X, Musk appeared to equally mock Anthropic’s identify.
“At all times price remembering that destiny loves irony. Probably the most ironic consequence for an organization 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 up to now, 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 Photos/LightRocket by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
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 put up 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 intention at Tesla’s Autopilot know-how.
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Musk, Altman and Anthropic couldn’t be instantly reached by FOX Enterprise for remark.
