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AsOpenAIattempts to become a for-profit venture, Elon Musk seems to be a throwing a wrench into the works.
The investor group includes Ari Emanuel and Musk’s own artificial intelligence company,xAI.
At the time of writing, OpenAI has not officially released a statement about the bid.
Musk, apparently, unamused, responded, “Swindler.”
He has continued making anti-Altman posts on Twitter including a video where he wrote “Scam Altman.”
It shares the same name as aproject introduced last yearby OpenAI and Microsoft.
An ongoing feud
This feud goes as far back as 2015.
OpenAI was founded by Altman, Musk and several others that year.
Publically, the feuding seemed to begin in 2018 when Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors.
It was initially described as a conflict of interest removal.
That lawsuit continued in November with a preliminary injunction to OpenAI from becoming for-profit.
A brief tit-for-tat ensued from there.
Musk called Stargate “fake” and questioned Altman’s loyalty to Trump.
Now, we have this $97.4 billion unsolicited bid and mocking words from Altman.
What happens next?
Altman, by comparison, is worth $1.2 billion, largely thanks to investments in Reddit and Stripe.
Allegedly, he does not have equity stake in OpenAI.
The feud appears no closer to ending or coming to an amicable end.
