Musk says Chinese rival Xpeng stole Tesla and Apple codes

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New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Chinese electric car maker Xpeng of stealing the old source codes of his electric vehicle maker company. Musk even alleged that Xpeng stole Appleࢀ™s code too. In a chat with one of his followers on Twitter who asked why is Xpeng using LiDAR technology which is a big deviation from copying Tesla, Musk replied: ࢀœThey have an old version of our software & donࢀ™t have our NN inference computerࢀ. He continued: ࢀœThey stole Appleࢀ™s code tooࢀ. In July 2019, Guangzhi Cao, a former engineer at Tesla admitted…