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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested Elon Musk cares more about his jobs than the country, shortly after calling Musk “the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time.”
Following the announcement of a new $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure project involving OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, Musk cast doubt about the project’s ability to deliver on its promises, claiming that the group of companies did not actually have the money to complete the project. The project, called Stargate, will see a trio of companies join forces to build data centers in the US to further develop artificial intelligence, which promises to increase productivity by automating work.
According to Musk, he has “good authority” that the new project lacks funding, he said in a post on X, in response to a separate post by Altman’s OpenAI touting the new project. “SoftBank has well under $10 billion secured. I have that on good authority.”
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Altman responded to Musk’s claim, insisting he was “wrong.”
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar defends the company’s position that it has financial backing to fund the Stargate AI project. (Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“Wrong, as I’m sure you know,” Altman wrote of Musk’s claim that OpenAI didn’t have the money to fund Stargate. “Do you want to visit the first place that is already in progress?” Musk asked.
“I understand that what is good for the state is not always optimal for your companies, but I hope that in your new role you will mainly put [America] first,” Altman added.
Altman’s bashing of Musk resulted in the tech entrepreneur-turned-presidential adviser posting a series of criticisms aimed at Altman, calling him a “liar” and suggesting the OpenAI CEO is greedy and anti-Trump, despite recently saying his point of view about the president changed and that he was excited to see what Trump will do for the country.
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Musk shared posts criticizing Altman’s ties to the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a Trump critic who helped fund E. Jean Carroll’s sexual-assault lawsuit against the president before his November election victory. Another post Musk shared claimed that Altman’s OpenAI was giving money to the news outlet Axios, which the post accused of being anti-Trump. Musk also pointed to Altman’s 2016 post saying — after Trump’s first election victory in 2016 — that he was “getting back to work on a new project to stop Trump.”
Elon Musk, left, previously helped start OpenAI, now CEO Sam Altman, but is no longer associated with the company. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
In addition to trying to portray Altman as anti-Trump, Musk also criticized OpenAI, which Musk helped found but is not currently involved with. Last year, Musk sued OpenAI twice, alleging that Altman and the company breached a contract they signed agreeing that the company’s main purpose would be to benefit the public, not make money.
“Altman literally testified to Congress that he won’t get paid for OpenAI, and now he wants $10 billion!” Musk posted on X, along with a picture of a Reuters headline about Altman getting an ownership stake in OpenAI after it went from a nonprofit to a private company. – What a liar.
Another post shared by Musk included an image of a meth pipe with the caption “Leaked image of OpenAI research tool used to come up with $500 billion figure for Stargate.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. (Getty Images)
In response to the war of words between Musk and Altman, the politics of artificial intelligence researcher Tolga Bilga questioned Altman’s Criticism of Musk, Writing on X, “What’s His True Mask?”
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“Both are true!” Altman replied. “I don’t think he’s a good person or treats us fairly, but you have to respect him, and he makes us all be more ambitious.”
Fox News Digital reached out to OpenAI and Musk for comment, but had not heard back by the time of publication.
