Elon Musk and xAI hijack OpenAI’s launch with dot.com domain

xAI, Elon Musk’s company, acquired the dot.com domain before OpenAI’s launch of Dots.

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The site now redirects to the download page for Grok, its chatbot.

This move is seen as a provocation toward OpenAI.

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