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Elon Musk drifted from Larry Page over a decade ago, but their companies are closer than ever

CNBC · Jun 14, 2026, 11:30 AM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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  • In Elon Musk's telling of the story, his friendship with Google co-founder Larry Page soured in June 2015, at the Tesla and Space X CEO's 44th birthday party.
  • That happened while they were discussing the terrifying potential of artificial intelligence.

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In Elon Musk's telling of the story, his friendship with Google co-founder Larry Page soured in June 2015, at the Tesla and Space X CEO's 44th birthday party. There, Page reportedly called Musk a "speciesist" for saying he favored humans over future digital life forms.

That happened while they were discussing the terrifying potential of artificial intelligence.

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