Musk's xAI Caught in Coding Conundrum: Months of Training on Rival Claude Outputs Exposed
Elon Musk's xAI has been secretly training its coding models on outputs from Anthropic's Claude for months, a move that raises questions about the company's development strategy and ethics. This revelation comes as xAI faces internal turmoil and significant departures from its engineering team.
Elon Musk's xAI used Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models for months and kept going even after Anthropic cut off access, using private accounts and the Blackbox AI service. Meanwhile, xAI's pretraining team shrank to fewer than five people, and several leads walked out. The compute Musk bought up is now being rented to Anthropic and Google instead of powering his own models. The article Elon Musk's xAI reportedly trained its coding models on Claude outputs for months before getting cut off appeared first on The Decoder.