ChatGPT owner OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hit back at Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO and Twitter’s owner Musk recently said that OpenAI has become a “maximum profit company…,” which was not what he “intended at all.” Musk, who is one of the initial founders of OpenAI, made the statement responding to a tweet questioning why he co-founded OpenAI when he considers artificial intelligence as “one of the biggest risks” to civilization and needs further regulation. Musk wrote in response, “OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), a non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.”
OpenAI CEO’s response to Elon Musk
The OpenAI CEO said that his company is “independent” from Microsoft, and noted that the big tech giant doesn’t have a seat on OpenAI’s board. Altman made the comments during a recent episode of the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast. “Most of that is not true, and I think Elon knows that,” Altman said during the podcast. However, at the same time he added that Musk’s rebuke likely came from a place of concern.
“To say a positive thing about Elon, I think he really does care about a good future with AGI,” said Altman. “I mean, he’s a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him — he has a style that is not a style that I’d want to have for myself,” Altman told Swisher. “But I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future’s going to look like for humanity,” he added.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in the year 2015 alongside other prominent Silicon Valley figures like Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Peter Theil, and others. They all pledged $1 billion to the project at the time. The company was initially a non-profit, But it shed its non-profit status in 2019. “We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission,” says the company on its website.
OpenAI CEO’s response to Elon Musk
The OpenAI CEO said that his company is “independent” from Microsoft, and noted that the big tech giant doesn’t have a seat on OpenAI’s board. Altman made the comments during a recent episode of the “On With Kara Swisher” podcast. “Most of that is not true, and I think Elon knows that,” Altman said during the podcast. However, at the same time he added that Musk’s rebuke likely came from a place of concern.
“To say a positive thing about Elon, I think he really does care about a good future with AGI,” said Altman. “I mean, he’s a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him — he has a style that is not a style that I’d want to have for myself,” Altman told Swisher. “But I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future’s going to look like for humanity,” he added.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in the year 2015 alongside other prominent Silicon Valley figures like Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Peter Theil, and others. They all pledged $1 billion to the project at the time. The company was initially a non-profit, But it shed its non-profit status in 2019. “We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission,” says the company on its website.
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