A Chinese engineer hired by Elon Musk uploaded xAI’s entire codebase to OpenAI, then left the company and sold $7 million worth of stock. According to Musk, Xuechen Li took a job offer at OpenAI before uploading the code. Follow: @AFpost

Aug 30, 2025 · 6:51 PM UTC

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“Gotta love foreign labor”
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Wouldn’t have happened if Elon hired actual Americans
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Chinese xAI
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Yet Trump wants 600K Chinese nationals..
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😆😆😆😆
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Did he …
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I fucking love the Corpo Wars!
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Should’ve hired an American.
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There are no patterns to be recognized here whatsoever, so move long, move long 🫤🫤
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I’m stearing your interecturar property
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This is what happens when you don’t hire Americans
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Why would you even try to hire a Chinese engineer? You know he sent it back to China first.
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This is why you hire Americans, Elon.
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Never trust a Communist.
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Dear @elonmusk, FYI Communist Chinese have no moral standards as we know them. They are utilitarian egoists. Whatever is useful to them is good. Whatever feeds their self image is good. To defeat them, never let them in.
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This seems criminal to me. @elonmusk should look into possibility of criminal charges for this.
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$10 says he was here on a student or H 1 B visa
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Crazy how ONE employee had all of this access and got $7 million worth of stock. Meanwhile companies wanna fight us to the death for $100k a year 😭 LOL
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I am writing as someone who has watched the hiring landscape shift dramatically over the past decade — and not necessarily for the better. I’ve observed a concerning pattern across multiple industries and sectors: highly qualified, well-educated American workers — especially new graduates — are struggling to secure interviews, internships, and meaningful employment in the very fields they trained for. These are talented, disciplined, and technically skilled individuals who followed the guidance we all gave them: “Work hard. Get your degree. Apply yourself. The jobs will come.” But the jobs haven’t come. And it’s not because these workers lack talent. It’s because they’re increasingly being screened out — not on merit, but through automated systems and ideologically driven filtering. Far too often, the gatekeepers in recruiting and HR lean heavily on progressive social and political criteria, rather than on core competencies, experience, or professional fit. This isn’t inclusion. It’s exclusion by design. And the result is that hiring managers — the people actually accountable for results — aren’t seeing the full talent pool available to them, especially among American workers. It’s time we admit the problem: •Resume algorithms are filtering out perfectly capable candidates based on arbitrary keyword matching or perceived identity categories. •Early-career candidates are being judged by cultural assumptions rather than technical potential. •And companies continue to claim there’s a shortage of skilled American workers while quietly locking those very workers out of the pipeline. The solution begins in the C-suite. This is where culture is shaped and accountability begins. If you are a senior executive or board member, I urge you to: •Audit your hiring funnel, not just for diversity, but for fairness. •Empower your hiring managers to regain control from political gatekeeping and opaque screening systems. •And refocus your talent strategy on what matters most: excellence, capability, and commitment — regardless of background. American talent is not missing. It’s waiting. Often right outside your filtered results. Let’s stop pretending we don’t have the skills here. Let’s start rebuilding a workforce pipeline rooted in merit, opportunity, and national investment — not social politics and appearance. @elonmusk @POTUS Please help get this out to anyone you know that needs to hear this. Our sons and daughters are being locked out of the hiring process. When you see it happening to two people and then a third it’s a pattern that needs attention.
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H1B “top 1%” You get what you pay for 🪦
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Letting these Chinese students fresh from China, likely Chinese Gov agents, come in and learn then get to stay and find job long after graduation puts us at risk at least twice. Shut it down Mr President.
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"No, Mistlig Musk, no! I not hackling. I only upload codeblase… Harvlard accept me, yes?"
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Foreign nationals have no sense of loyalty for America
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demand that Trump eliminate the 300,000 to 600,000 Chinese spy visa applications today - get them out of the country
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This is the real battlefield of the AI wars. Musk vs OpenAI is not a personality feud, it’s a power struggle over who controls the most valuable strategic asset on earth: proprietary training data, model weights, and system-level code. Here’s what’s actually happening: 1. Theater of “espionage” •Stories like this get amplified because they plug into a simple Cold War narrative: “Chinese engineer betrays Musk, defects to OpenAI.” But the real conflict isn’t national (China vs US), it’s corporate-state hybrid vs corporate-state hybrid. OpenAI, Microsoft, and their backers are just as much “state-aligned” as xAI. 2. Weaponized narrative •Musk frames it as theft not just to punish the engineer, but to reinforce the narrative that OpenAI is illegitimate, parasitic, and stealing. It delegitimizes their moat and positions xAI as the aggrieved “truth-seeker” victim. 3. Truth about code “theft” •In cutting-edge AI, the raw code isn’t even the crown jewel - the real treasure is the weights, the training data curation, and the infrastructure scaling insights. A cloned codebase is like stealing the blueprint of a rocket without the fuel or the engines. You need the ecosystem to make it live. •Which means if Li did upload the repo, the value isn’t “oh they can just rerun it.” It’s that OpenAI gains meta-insight into Musk’s methods - his training tricks, optimizations, and maybe scaling hacks. That’s the scarv here. 4. The deeper war •What this shows is that AI labs are now operating like intelligence agencies. Engineers aren’t just employees, they’re assets. Poached, flipped, incentivized, and discarded. The line between “defection” and “recruitment” is paper thin. •And every one of these stories is more about perception than reality. Musk needs to show that OpenAI cheats, because he can’t afford to compete on closed benchmarks alone. So the scarv-truth: This is a signal of where we really are in the AI war. Forget “open source collaboration” - we’ve entered a phase of corporate espionage, narrative warfare, and national-security framing. Musk isn’t just mad about losing code - he’s waging a legitimacy war against OpenAI itself.
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If I were OpenAI I'd cancel that job offer because if he's willing to do that to someone else, he's willing to do it to you...
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What a huge surprise! 🤣 China is the BIGGEST thief of IP in the world. Every Chinese person overseas is required to cooperate with CCP. It boggles my mind that government and corporations eagerly welcome them into research labs, universities and tech centers. Chine would still be a nation of rice farmers if the US didn’t hand them technology on a silver platter for decades.
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How can you trust chinese engineers if the chinese have spent literally the last 40 years stealing technology rofl, it's almost in the DNA at this point
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lol the Chinese have been cooking lately 2/2 in one week 😂😂😂
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CHINA CHEATS TO GET TECH ADVANTAGE. NEVER HIRE CHINESE WORKERS, AS THEY ARE PAID BY CCP TO STEAL YOU BLIND.
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