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The AI drama is heating up / The higher the stakes, the more infighting spills into public view.
Everywhere you look in the world of AI, knives are coming out.
This particular spat started with LeCun, Meta’s top AI researcher, criticizing Musk for spewing “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” and pointing out that anyone who joins his OpenAI competitor, xAI, will have to take orders from an erratic megalomaniac. While I have no doubt that LeCun has a personal distaste for Musk, their exchange is emblematic of a broader trend that’s playing out: as the stakes in the AI race get higher and the fight for talent grows fiercer, the drama is heating up. This story is exclusively for subscribers of Command Line, our newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation.
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