Model Launches· The Decoder· Jun 6, 2026· 15 hours ago· 1 min read
Elon Musk's xAI reportedly trained its coding models on Claude outputs for months before getting cut off
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…
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