All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI
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Musk describes his relationship with OpenAI in three phases: one that was “enthusiastically supportive,” a second where he became “uncertain,” and a third where “I’m sure they’re looting the nonprofit.” He’s asked whether Altman reached out about Musk’s public comments and mentions a time when Musk showed concern on Twitter over OpenAI granting Microsoft an exclusive license for GPT-3. “Sam Altman immediately reached out to reassure me that OpenAI was staying on mission as a nonprofit,” Musk says.
A text message from Altman reads: “Saw your feedback on Twitter last week… happy to talk about this if you like but there’s no way we can hold a candle to DeepMind without many billions of dollars.” Altman tells Musk that Microsoft is the best way to get that with the least compromise: “we still retain autonomy to release our work ourselves. We can and will continue to provide API access to the most powerful language model in existence to everyone.”
