IT Home September 11th news, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was interviewed by former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson yesterday and talked about his views on Elon Musk.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman had a cooperative relationship in the early stage. The two had jointly founded OpenAI, of which Musk called himself $100 million for OpenAI in 2023 (IT Home Note: the current exchange rate is about 712 million yuan), but the amount is different. OpenAI said in March last year that Musk's actual investment amount is less than 45 million US dollars (the current exchange rate is about 320 million yuan).
Altman recalled: "For a long time, I regarded Musk as an incredible hero and a great treasure of mankind. There are many things about him that are incredible, and I am very grateful for many things he has done. Of course, I have changed now."
In 2018, Musk withdrew from the OpenAI board of directors, and the relationship between the two has declined rapidly since then, with Musk often publicly criticizing Altman for his leadership in OpenAI.
Althman revealed that Musk withdrew from the board of directors at that time because he felt that OpenAI "had not entered the path to success." He expressed his opinion on Musk: "Our company did a pretty good job later, and I understand that he was dissatisfied and jealous of it. If it were me, I would probably feel uncomfortable."
In February last year, Musk also sued Altman and OpenAI, accusing his cooperation with Microsoft of violating the "non-profit" mission promised at the time of founding. The lawsuit was withdrawn in June of the same year, but Musk filed the lawsuit again two months later. At that time, Musk also posted a post on the X platform to mock Altman: "If you change OpenAI's name to ClosedAI, I will withdraw the lawsuit."
At the same time, Musk founded xAI company and started to build his own AI assistant Grok, which officially opened the era of "love and killing" with Altman. Last August, he also sued Apple and OpenAI, accusing Apple's AppStore store of favoring OpenAI and violating antitrust regulations.
