Tesla CEO Elon Musk provoked the figure AI humanoid, which has emerged as a rival, by saying, “Go for it!” Figure AI is an organization that OpenAI invested in, and Musk sued OpenAI on the identical day.

Business Insider reported on the 2nd (local time) that CEO Musk left a post saying 'Bring it on' through X (Twitter).

In response to this, Musk's comment was geared toward Figure AI, which raised $675 million (about 900 billion won) at a price of $2 billion (about 2.67 trillion won) from Jeff Bezos and Nvidia on the twenty fourth of last month. This company is developing artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid robots like Tesla.

Specifically, on the sixteenth of last month, it signed a contract to deploy robots at BMW's U.S. factory, emerging as a competitor to Tesla. Tesla also previously announced that it plans to deploy humanoid ‘Optimus’ on the Texas Gigafactory.

Accordingly, a number of days after the contract was announced, Tesla suddenly began to ascertain Optimus by releasing a video of him walking, saying that he had “evolved significantly.”

Coupled with the undeniable fact that Open AI was sued, CEO Musk's comments received more attention. Specifically, it was reported that Brett Adcock, founding father of Figure AI, was stimulated by his statement that he would cooperate with OpenAI to develop AI-based robots.

In this fashion, along with his bad relationship as a former director, CEO Musk can also be connected to Open AI from a business standpoint. The chatbot ‘Grock’ released by xAI is a product targeting ‘ChatGPT’.

There are also predictions that this relationship may have an impact on lawsuits targeting Open AI.

On this lawsuit, Musk is claiming that OpenAI has abandoned its founding goal, “to release technology as open source for the good thing about humanity.” Nevertheless, in that case, you may as well make a business profit.

Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com