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Musk & Page: Billionaire Feud Fueled by AI?
14 Jun
Summary
- Musk and Page's friendship reportedly soured in June 2015.
- Google invested $900 million in SpaceX in 2015.
- SpaceX is leasing AI infrastructure to Google for $920 million monthly.
The personal and professional entanglement between Elon Musk and Google's Larry Page has intensified despite a significant cooling in their friendship. Their relationship reportedly fractured in June 2015 when Page allegedly called Musk a "speciesist" during a discussion about artificial intelligence.
Coincidentally, in the same year, Google made a substantial investment of $900 million in Musk's SpaceX. This financial connection has deepened, with SpaceX recently announcing a 32-month lease agreement to provide AI infrastructure to Google. This deal, valued at $920 million per month, could generate $30 billion for SpaceX's AI division.
Furthermore, Musk's early involvement in AI, co-founding OpenAI in 2015 as a direct counterweight to Google DeepMind, highlights the competitive undercurrent. His recruitment of key AI talent, like Ilya Sutskever from DeepMind, further illustrates the strategic rivalry that has defined their interactions over the past decade.
