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> We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Mu
by skeledrew 2mo ago
> We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts.
> After Musk acquired Twitter, now part of SpaceX, the company broke (opens in a new window) the terms of our contract (alongside many others).
I have never seen one large company throw another large company under the bus without any legalese filters like this before. Wondering if OpenAI site got pwned. Or maybe we in some strange, alternative reality. I doubt even their LLMs would be this frank.
- the_real_cher 2mo agoSam and Elon have a long standing feud. This is more than just bad blood between companies.
- skeledrew 2mo agoStill, where's the legalese? I'd expect something like this on an individual's blog, not a company's.
- mikeyouse 2mo agoThey can skip the legalese because Musk had testified under oath that Grok was distilling OpenAI models while Elon was on the board of OpenAI. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/921546/elon-musk-xai-openai-trial-model-distillation https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/921546/e...
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- AirMax98 2mo agoAnd to announce it on a Friday night. Brutal.
- Palmik 2mo agoElon Musk openly admitted to distilling OpenAI's models during his lawsuit against OpenAI. [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/30/elon-musk-admits-xai-distilled-openai-data-to-train-models-heres-what-that-means/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/30/elo...