{"id":1020545,"date":"2026-07-13T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020545"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:58:39","slug":"elon-musk-does-not-agree-with-companies-who-want-employees-to-use-in-house-ai-models-says-you-should-continue-using-ai-models-developed-by-other-companies-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/elon-musk-does-not-agree-with-companies-who-want-employees-to-use-in-house-ai-models-says-you-should-continue-using-ai-models-developed-by-other-companies-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk does not agree with companies who want employees to use in-house AI models, says: You should continue using AI models developed by other companies if \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has hit back at a report which claimed that the tech billionaire has told the Tesla staff to switch to Grok 4.5, a model he admits is worse. He has clarified that he does not force his employees to use his own software blindly if a competitor&#8217;s product performs better.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification comes after an internal memo leaked (via The Information) from Tesla last week, showing that the electric vehicle maker had placed a strict $200 weekly cap on employee spending for third-party AI tools like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Gemini, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has hit back at a report which claimed that the tech billionaire has told the Tesla staff to switch to Grok 4.5, a model he admits is worse. He has clarified that he does not force his employees to use his own software blindly if a competitor&#8217;s product performs better. The clarification comes after an internal memo leaked (via The Information) from Tesla last week, showing that the electric vehicle maker had placed a strict $200 weekly cap on employee spending for third-party AI tools like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Gemini, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020546,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020545\/revisions\/1020546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}