It’s Altman vs. Musk yet again.<\/p>\n
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> says the recent bout of attention he’s received from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk must mean his company is doing good work.<\/p>\n “There are a lot of benchmarks that suggest 5.6 sol is the best model in the world right now,” Altman wrote on X on Saturday, referring to his company’s latest model. “But the most reliable way to tell is that elon is obsessed with me again.”<\/p>\n Musk turned his attention back to Altman after Apple filed a bombshell lawsuit<\/a> on Friday, accusing OpenAI, its hardware partner io, and two former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets. OpenAI acquired io, a design firm run by Jony Ive<\/a>, the legendary former Apple designer, last year as it makes a push into consumer AI hardware.<\/p>\n In a brief statement in response to the lawsuit, OpenAI said it has “no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.”<\/p>\n It’s just the kind of thing to capture Musk’s attention, who spent part of his weekend roasting the OpenAI CEO, whom he repeatedly called “Scam Altman.”<\/p>\n In response, Altman argued that Musk was also a scammer. “Homeboy you’re the one selling public market investors on short-term space datacenters,” Altman wrote.<\/p>\n Musk replied that SpaceX would begin “flying them” next year \u2014 which seems ambitious, though the multi-company CEO is famous for missing self-imposed deadlines \u2014 and joked that Altman could visit if his “parole officer” allowed it.<\/p>\n Musk and Altman cofounded OpenAI in 2015, but their relationship later fractured over control, funding, and the company’s direction. They’ve been at each other’s throats ever since.<\/p>\n In 2024, Musk sued OpenAI<\/a>, Altman, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, accusing them of deceiving him out of early charitable contributions by eventually operating OpenAI as a for-profit venture. OpenAI had originally been a nonprofit. A federal jury ruled against Musk<\/a> in May. Musk said he planned to appeal.<\/p>\n Musk founded rival AI company xAI in 2023, which is now part of SpaceX.<\/p>\n “After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow,” Musk wrote on X on Saturday, referring to his claims in the lawsuit he lost. “What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.”<\/p>\n Altman has yet to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s Altman vs. Musk yet again. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the recent bout of attention he’s received…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,239,738,11286,375365,318935,638,375366,66,2539,305,5996,25548,923,5395,158,17823,354272,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-930901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-attention","tag-bombshell-lawsuit","tag-brief-statement","tag-company","tag-consumer-ai-hardware","tag-elon-musk","tag-musk","tag-openai","tag-part","tag-response","tag-sam-altman","tag-saturday","tag-technology","tag-thing","tag-trade-secret","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}