Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who runs Tesla, owns X and who recently, as co-founder of OpenAI, sued the company’s CEO Sam Altman, has posted a meme to troll the company in question.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who runs Tesla, owns X and who recently, as co-founder of OpenAI, sued the company’s CEO Sam Altman, has posted a meme to troll the company in question.
The cryptocurrency community is now in an uproar as they seem curious and excited about what will happen next. Some have even suggested that Musk buy OpenAI.
This development came shortly after OpenAI provided initial correspondence with Musk, striking back at the centibillionaire.
Community wonders what Musk will do next with OpenAI
Elon Musk posted a meme, playing with the company name and calling OpenAI “ClosedAI,” as if implying that that is what he intends to do with this AI development company.
The crypto community sent multiple comments of support to the head of X, who integrated the Grok AI chatbot into the platform, which was produced by xAI, the startup Musk launched last year to oppose OpenAI, which he considers woke. Grok is the complete opposite of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which avoids discussing sensitive topics with its users so as not to hurt their feelings.
Cryptocurrency influencer David Gokhshtein suggested that Musk should simply buy OpenAI like he did with Twitter.
Tech journalist and media producer Brian Krassenstein asked Musk if he intends to eventually open xAI or Grok and if Musk considers Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, “a danger to humanity.”
OpenAI fights back against Musk in court
When Musk accused Sam Altman of violating OpenAI’s initial charter, he demanded that Altman and another co-founder, Greg Brochman, return the profits they had received from the business he started with Musk’s participation.
This week, Correspondence published by OpenAI with Musk, in which he stated that the company needs a large amount of funding to support the enormous computing resources needed to run its future AI.
According to those emails, Musk pledged to provide $1 billion for the company but later backed out. In 2018, Musk suggested that selling OpenAI to Tesla would be the only way forward for the former: OpenAI urgently needed billions of dollars, he said.
OpenAI rejected the offer and created a for-profit entity, OpenAI LP. Microsoft later pledged to provide $13 billion in funding, and OpenAI is now worth $90 billion.
