Khosla first posted that an open conference might yield a candidate who might “simply” beat Trump, resembling Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer or Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — in a later put up, he additionally known as on Vice President Kamala Harris or Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear to declare their candidacy. He famous these politicians may lead the US with out the nation being “held hostage between MAGA extremists and DEI extremism.”
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, was not impressed.
“Come on, Vinod. Trump/Vance LFG!!” he replied.
Musk, who totally endorsed Donald Trump final Saturday after the capturing at a Trump rally, has been praised by the previous president as a “sensible man” — regardless of Trump saying he hadn’t heard about Musk’s reported plan of donating $45 million every month to a pro-Trump tremendous PAC.
Khosla is a Democratic donor who hosted a fundraiser for Biden in Might and beforehand endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016. He snapped again, noting it could be onerous to help Trump.
“Exhausting for me to help somebody with no values, lies, cheats, rapes, demeans ladies, hates immigrants like me,” Khosla replied. “He could minimize my taxes or cut back some regulation however that’s no purpose to simply accept depravity in his private values. Would you like President who will set again local weather by a decade in his first 12 months? Would you like his instance on your children as values?”
The 2 tech leaders exchanged extra messages. Musk stated the Republican Get together has changed the Democratic Get together because the social gathering defending individuals’s freedoms.
“I am not suggesting that Trump is with out flaws, nevertheless we’d like an administration that’s extra more likely to be meritocratic and promote particular person freedoms over the heavy hand of presidency,” Musk wrote.
Although Khosla agreed with Musk’s touch upon meritocracy and particular person freedoms, he took difficulty with Trump’s stances on local weather and America’s international management.
Khosla continued to put up all through the afternoon, asserting his views on the local weather disaster, advocating for ranked-choice voting, and stressing the significance of “values and morals” within the age of AI acceleration.
In one other put up, Khosla tagged Musk asking if he could be “keen forgive him for making an attempt to subvert democracy on Jan 6 and push for revolt simply to win?”
Musk didn’t reply to that put up.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has not publicly shared his ideas about Biden’s choice.
Musk touted how some White Home aides discovered about Biden dropping out by studying X. The platform estimated Biden’s announcement bought over 289 million views by Sunday night time. He additionally famous on X that his “smartest associates,” together with lifelong Democrats, “are enthusiastic about Trump/Vance.”
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, replied, “Your smartest associates aren’t very good.”
