Elon Musk Says He Was “Clearly Wrong” About Anthropic’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models. Here’s Why That’s Outstanding News for Amazon and Alphabet Investors
Adam Spatacco, The Motley Fool
Mon, July 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM GMT+5:30
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Over the last few years, large language models (LLMs) have burst onto the scene with unprecedented speed. What once felt like science fiction — chatbots that can reason, write, code, and converse almost like humans — has become an everyday reality reshaping industries from software development to healthcare. The race to build the most capable systems has drawn billions in capital investment and brought newfound attention to the world’s largest technology companies
Among the frontrunners stand ChatGPT from OpenAI, Claude from Anthropic, Grok from xAI, and Perplexity’s search-augmented models. These companies are backed by heavyweight investors: Microsoft has poured enormous re and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) have each made substantial commitments to Anthropic, while xAI represents Elon Musk’s ambitious push into the field of frontier AI
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The competition is fierce, the stakes are immense, and the questions on everyone’s mind are simple yet electric: Which model is actually the best and on what basis should it be judged — raw intelligence, reliability, speed, or something else? Elon Musk just offered his own pointed answer. And ironically enough, he didn’t say Grok!
Giving credit where credit is due
In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk delivered a striking admission: He says he was wrong about Anthropic and now views the company as the clear current leader in AI. Musk went on to admit that no other lab has released a model that matches the quality of Anthropic’s Mythos/Fable system
While openly praising a competitor may seem counterintuitive, Musk has a history of lending support to rivals. As he made sure to remind his nearly 241 million X followers, Tesla open- other electric vehicle (EV) developers
Just about any public remark by Musk is influential. In this specific instance, it signals that even a competitor is willing to acknowledge superior performance when it appears, rather than dismissing it. In an AI landscape defined by rapid iteration and enormous capital outlays, such candor can easily influence talent flows and partnership decisions
