
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has amplified an observation about Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's efficiency in building cutting-edge AI, despite spending far less than rivals like Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META).
What Happened: Following the launch of Grok 4, Musk's most advanced large language model developed by his AI startup xAI, Artificial Analysis ranked the model as the most intelligent among leading competitors, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 4 and Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Gemini 2.5 Pro in several key benchmarks.