Musk Admitted xAI Was Distilling GPT Models at Massive Scale

haider1 · x · 2026-08-30

A post claims Elon Musk admitted in court that xAI was distilling GPT models at a massive scale. The author argues that Cursor providing direct access to OpenAI models would have allowed SpaceXAI to leverage its massive compute to build a competitor, which OpenAI wants to avoid. Musk also reposted a tirade against OpenAI executives.

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