Pretentious & poisonous: Musk on for-profit firms calling themselves labs

Elon Musk criticised the culture at US AI companies as Chinese firms continue to produce AI models. He was reacting to a viral X post that argued US AI startups treat "researchers" as higher status than infrastructure engineers, with many for-profit companies branding themselves as "labs". Musk called it "pretentious and poisonous" for for-profit companies to call themselves "labs".