Elon Musk reignited his long-running feud with billionaire rival Jeff Bezos, suggesting the Amazon founder has a behavior of copying his enterprise strikes.
Musk took a sarcastic jab on the Amazon founder in response to a tweet from controversial tech provocateur Kim Dotcom, who accused Bezos of imitating Musk’s forays into burgeoning sectors of the economic system.
“Elon builds rockets, Jeff copies Elon,” Dotcom wrote. “Elon builds electrical vehicles, Jeff copies. Elon Elon builds brain-computer hyperlink, Jeff copies Elon… with [Microsoft founder Bill Gates] who copied [Amazon founder] Steve Jobs.”
“Possibly it’s a coincidence,” Musk replied, including a shrugging emoji.
The sarcastic tweet marked the most recent change between Musk and Bezos, who’ve developed a thorny relationship in public whereas clashing over their overlapping enterprise pursuits. The 2 billionaires are main an unprecedented personal area race.
Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’ Blue Origin are competing for federal contracts and to ascertain themselves because the world’s foremost area tourism corporations. Individually, Amazon has launched Undertaking Kuiper, an initiative to construct a “constellation” of web satellites to rival SpaceX’s Starlink system.
When Amazon first introduced Undertaking Kuiper in 2019, Musk tweeted that Bezos was a “copycat.”
Final yr, Blue Origin staged an unsuccessful authorized battle by which it had accused NASA of improperly awarding a lunar lander contract to SpaceX.
Dotcom additionally referenced Bezos’ participation, alongside Gates, in a $75 million fundraising spherical for mind computing agency Synchron. Musk is a co-founder of Neuralink and a serious proponent of the potential of mind implants – even promising to position a chip inside his personal head as soon as the expertise is prepared for human use.
Musk serves as CEO of automaker Tesla, which has constructed a commanding lead within the electrical automobile market, whereas Bezos’ Amazon purchased the self-driving taxi startup Zoox for $1.2 billion in 2020.
As of this fall, the pair additionally competes within the media sector — with Bezos proudly owning the Washington Publish and Musk proudly owning and main Twitter. On that entrance, Bezos was first, having scooped up the newspaper in 2013.
Their feud has sometimes ranged into extra petty territory. In September, Musk publicly slammed Amazon’s costly “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy” sequence – declaring the ebook sequence’ creator J.R.R. Tolkien was “delivering his grave” over the e-commerce big’s rendition of his work.
“Nearly each male character to this point is a coward, a jerk or each,” Musk tweeted.
“Solely Galadriel is courageous, sensible and good,” Musk added, referring to the present’s fundamental character, who’s feminine.
Musk presently ranks because the world’s second-richest individual, with an estimated fortune of $163.7 billion, based on Forbes. Bezos ranks fourth with an estimated web value of $111.1 billion.
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