Sam Altman's comments came amid a flurry of online exchanges between himself, Musk, and Microsoft over the $500 billion Stargate Project announced by Trump.
As 2024 was drawing to a close, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced two major problems. He wasn’t getting enough server capacity from Microsoft, his company’s biggest backer, to stay ahead of rivals developing artificial intelligence.
At a press conference capping his first full day back in the White House, Donald Trump stood beside three of the most influential executives in the world—Sam Altman of OpenAI, Larry Ellison of Oracle,
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is battling rumors surrounding superintelligence and AGI (artificial general intelligence). Is ChatGPT able to perform at human levels - or better?
Sam Altman has once again put himself in a position of power—this time by sidling up to President Trump.
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are in a dispute over the Stargate AI project proposed by Donald Trump, which aims to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure. Musk questions the necessity of the funding while Altman defends the project as beneficial for the country.
The development is the latest after Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and the chief of Donald Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency, announced on X that SoftBank has only under $10 billion to invest in Stargate.
"I genuinely respect your accomplishments and think you are the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time," Altman wrote in an X post to Musk.
Musk’s criticisms have escalated into legal actions. In February, he filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing it of breaching its nonprofit mandate. Although the lawsuit was withdrawn in June, Musk refiled it in August, further intensifying the conflict.
The feds have sided with Elon Musk on a key pillar of his high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Sam Altman-led OpenAI, Microsoft and billionaire Reid Hoffman, The Post has learned.