OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday that Elon Musk is ‘insecure,’ and ‘not a happy person’ – after the two engaged in a social media spat following a Musk-led group’s offer to purchase the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Altman reiterated that OpenAI is “not for sale” amid an attempted restructuring into a for-profit entity which is currently being challenged as part of a broad federal antitrust lawsuit against OpenAI, key investor Microsoft, and Altman himself, NY Post reports.
“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity,” Altman said of Musk, adding “I feel for the guy. I don’t think he’s a happy person.”
Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but eventually had a falling out over the company’s eventual direction. Musk has since founded competitor xAI.
Altman suggested that Musk’s offer is “probably just trying to slow us down” using a tactic. […]
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