Musk: 'AI labs' term makes no sense — anyone reporting quarterly EPS is a for-profit corporation
ns123abc · x · 2026-10-02
Elon Musk pushed back on calling companies like OpenAI and Anthropic "labs," arguing the term makes no sense: any entity reporting quarterly earnings per share is obviously not a lab but a for-profit corporation. They may own labs, he said, but they also run large enterprise sales teams generating billions in revenue.
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