OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has signalled a willigness to work with Elon Musk to finish the feud between them and work in direction of reaching synthetic common intelligence (AGI). Notably, Musk and Altman share an advanced historical past which entails beginning OpenAI collectively and now working as rivals in the identical area.
On Saturday, each Musk and Altman have been concerned in a confrontation over their earlier stance criticising Donald Trump. The alternate began with Musk quoting a tweet from Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham, which learn, “Few have accomplished greater than Sam Altman to defeat Trump.”
Responding to that submit, Altman replied, “we have been each improper, or at the least i definitely was 🤷♂️ however that was from 2016 and this was from 2022”.
Altman was referencing a brand new article quoting a tweet from Musk in 2022 through which he wrote, “I don’t hate the person (Donald Trump), however it’s time for Trump to hold up his hat & sail into the sundown,”
The OpenAI CEO additionally waved the white flag, suggesting that they might be pals once more.
“Anyway, see you subsequent week, let’s be pals 🥺 👉👈 agi too necessary to let a lil feud get in the best way” Altman wrote in his reply.
Notably, Musk has been a detailed ally of President Donald Trump and was additionally given the cost of working the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) by the US President. In the meantime, Altman has additionally aligned with the US authorities’s agenda by contributing to the $500 billion Mission Stargate for constructing AI infrastructure within the US.
Elon Musk’s rivalry with OpenAI:
Whereas Musk exited OpenAI in 2018, he has been vital of the AI startup nearly proper after ChatGPT debuted to the general public in late 2022. Musk criticized OpenAI’s ties with Microsoft, famously stating that it had develop into a “closed supply, maximum-profit firm successfully managed by Microsoft,”.
In 2023, Musk additionally began his rival AI firm known as xAI which now runs the chatbot Grok that competes immediately with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Musk has additionally filed a number of lawsuits in opposition to OpenAI over its relationship with Microsoft amongst different issues. The newest lawsuit that Musk filed was to cease OpenAI’s for-profit restructuring push.
Whereas OpenAI earlier dismissed Musk as a zealous competitor, the ChatGPT maker needed to lastly change course after stress from AI specialists, former staff and lawyer generals of some states. Simply this week, OpenAI introduced that whereas its nonetheless spinning off its for-profit arm as a public profit company (PBC), the non-profit would proceed to retain management.
