Innovative technology mogul Elon Musk has posted two tweets commenting on recent OpenAI developments. These posts have received enthusiastic reaction from several members of the crypto community.
Innovative technology mogul Elon Musk has posted two tweets commenting on recent OpenAI developments. These posts have received enthusiastic reaction from several members of the crypto community.
One of the tweets suggests that Musk is concerned that Sam Altman has much more power over OpenAI than simply being the CEO.
Musk tweets about Sam Altman and OpenAI
Musk shared a link to an article whose title said that Sam Altman is not only the CEO of OpenAI, but also the owner of the company’s venture fund, titled OpenAI Startup Fund. It was created in late 2021 to invest in other potential AI-related startups and projects.
In May of last year, this fund contained $175 million. The curious thing here is that it is exclusively owned by Altman and OpenAI has nothing to do with it, according to an Axios article shared by Elon Musk.
The Tesla CEO and founder of OpenAI rival xAI reacted to this news with a “monocle face” emoji, as if expressing interest or concern.
The second tweet that came from Musk was a copy of a comment made by Twitter user DogeDesigner to Sam Altman’s tweet. In it, the former trolled Altman for turning the initially non-profit and open source company OpenAI into a closed source, profit-making company.
Crypto Community Prefers xAI Over OpenAI
The crypto community reacted with a humorous and sarcastic comment directed at OpenAI. Recall that in 2015, Musk, who was part of his board of directors, supported the company with a large amount of his own funds. However, later, he had a fight with the board of directors and Altman because they wanted to turn OpenAI from a non-profit company into a fully profit company.
Recently, Musk called OpenAI’s famous ChatGPT project “woke” as it avoids addressing socially sensitive topics to avoid offending anyone based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, politics, and the like.
To oppose ChatGPT, Musk quickly created his own startup called xAI. The company launched the Grok AI chatbot and Musk integrated it into the X app (formerly Twitter) for Premium users.
Unlike ChatGPT, Grok is programmed to discuss any topic and even has a sense of humor, according to reports posted by users on X.
