Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg separated at AI tech event as talks over $1bn super-fight heat up
MARK Zuckerberg and Elon Musk were sat separated at an AI tech event as talks over their proposed super fight continue.
Both Zuckerberg, 39, and Musk, 52, arrived at Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday to participate in the AI Insight Forum.
However, shots from inside the Senate hearing show the two tech giants seated at opposite ends of the panel.
The Meta Platforms co-founder Zuckerberg and Tesla co-founder Musk have been at odds in recent months.
This has led to a public spat between them, with the duo pushing for a cage fight to be organized by UFC boss Dana White.
However, talks over the proposed $1billion super fight have recently stalled, with Zuckerberg having called time on the proposal in August.
“Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” wrote Zuckerberg on Threads, an app created as a rival to Musk’s platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
And according to White, it doesn’t look likely talks will reopen in the near future.
Speaking to Charly Arnolt on Outkick The Morning, he admitted: “I never say never, but probably not.”
White was clearly disappointed that talks had collapsed, stating that it “would have been the biggest charity event ever held in history.”
He claimed that 90-percent of the estimated $1billion that would have been made from the event would have gone to charities.
But despite this, avid MMA fan Zuckerberg isn’t letting this get in the way of his martial arts journey.
White told TMZ in August that the Facebook co-founder is “very serious about competing” a UFC fighter.
He elaborated: “When [Zuckerberg] mentioned it, he said – listen, what he was saying in response to Elon was there are tons of professional organizations out there and this is the way this should be done, not in some backyard or whatever Elon was saying.”
This was a dig at Musk’s previous suggestion during an exchange on social media that he and Zuckerberg should practice in the latter’s backyard octagon.
In fact, in August Musk tweeted that he had arrived at Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto home.
“Knock, knock … challenge accepted … open the door,” he wrote, adding: “Thought you might want some tea, so I brought the bags.”
As for the actual fight, Musk had a grander location in mind – the Colosseum in Rome.
“Fight Recap: I joked on X about fighting Zuck,” Musk tweeted.
“Zuck then said ‘SEND ME LOCATION.’ Italy graciously offered a Colosseum. Zuck declined.”