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Elon Musk criticized Anthropic on Thursday, accusing the artificial intelligence (IA) models of corporate “misanthropy and evil.”
Musk’s comments came in response to an article on
In his response, which attracted at least 1 million views in a matter of hours, Musk claimed the company AI systems exhibit racial and demographic bias.
“Your AI hates white people and Asian people, especially Chinese people, heterosexuals and men. It’s misanthropic and evil,” Musk wrote. “Fix it.
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Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, January 22, 2026. (Fabrice Cofrini/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“Frankly, I don’t think there’s anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of Anthropic eventually becoming Misanthropic. You were doomed to that fate when you chose your name. The Name of the Wind.”
The Tesla CEO’s AI company, xAI, and its chatbot Grok compete directly with Anthropic’s Claude models.
Musk has previously criticized Anthropic, notably after reports last month that Anthropic had cut off xAI’s access to Claude models, according to Economic times.
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A smartphone screen displays a folder containing the AI applications Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek. (Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“Not really in programming, but he will excel in other areas. Anthropic has is doing something special with coding,” Musk wrote on January 15. “It was a useful motivation that they cut us off (xAI) and it’s not good for their karma.”
In a January 30 post on X, Musk also appeared to mock Anthropic’s name.
“Always remember that fate loves irony. The most ironic outcome for a company named (Anthropic) would be for it to be the most misanthropic!”
Anthropic’s latest fundraising ranks among the largest private tech fundraisings to date, just behind OpenAI, according to at CNBC.
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The logo of Anthropic Claude’s AI chatbot displayed on a smartphone. (Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Musk is also engaged in an ongoing feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The two exchanged barbs over X last month after Musk responded to a post alleging that OpenAI’s ChatGPT had been linked to several deaths, Business Insider reported.
“Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,” Musk wrote.
Altman pushed back, taking aim at Tesla’s autopilot technology.
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Musk, Altman and Anthropic could not immediately be reached by FOX Business for comment.