It seems like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg can finally agree on something.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg almost bought into a cage combat after Meta tried to dethrone X with Threads.

But the feuding duo does see eye to eye on one specific situation — AI.

Musk paid Zuckerberg a uncommon praise after Meta launched its brand new AI mannequin on Tuesday.

Elon Musk has lengthy been at loggerheads with Mark Zuckerberg.

Musk has taken a couple of potshots at Zuckerberg and even challenged him to a cage healthy in the previous yr after the Meta CEO determined to compete in opposition to X with Threads.

But there is at least one difficulty on which Musk can see eye to eye with Zuckerberg.

On Tuesday, Musk supplied a uncommon praise to Zuckerberg after Meta launched its state-of-the-art AI model, Llama 3.1. The model, which Meta claims is capable to outperform OpenAI's GPT-4o, is open supply and has been made accessible for the public to use for free.

 "It is astonishing and Zuck does deserve deposit for open-sourcing," Musk stated in response to an X put up on the mannequin from former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy on Tuesday.

Representatives at Meta for Zuckerberg did not at once reply to a request for remark from Business Insider despatched backyard everyday enterprise hours.

Both Zuckerberg and Musk have not hidden their ambitions to dominate the AI space. Back in January, Zuckerberg stated in an interview with The Verge that Meta had been stockpiling AI chips from Nvidia.

"We have constructed up the ability to do this at a scale that may additionally be large than any different person company. I suppose a lot of humans can also now not respect that," Zuckerberg instructed the outlet.

Likewise for Musk, whose AI startup xAI stated it raised $6 billion for the duration of their Series B funding spherical in May.

Musk's motivations for beginning xAI stemmed in phase from his disagreements with his cofounders at OpenAI. The mercurial billionaire cofounded OpenAI with its present day CEO Sam Altman in 2015 however left the company's board in 2018.

"OpenAI used to be created as an open supply (which is why I named it 'Open' AI), non-profit enterprise to serve as a counterweight to Google, however now it has turn out to be a closed source, maximum-profit enterprise correctly managed via Microsoft," Musk wrote in an X put up in February 2023. "Not what I meant at all."

That view used to be echoed through Zuckerberg, who outlined a comparable ethos in a enterprise weblog put up he posted on Tuesday.

"I accept as true with that open supply is imperative for a effective AI future," Zuckerberg wrote.

"There is an ongoing debate about the protection of open supply AI models, and my view is that open supply AI will be safer than the alternatives," he added. "I suppose governments will conclude it is in their hobby to assist open supply due to the fact it will make the world extra affluent and safer."

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