Elon Musk Blames OpenAI for Becoming an $800 Billion Closed-Source Company

Elon Musk says OpenAI turned into an $800 billion closed-source company. That is the "exact opposite" of the nonprofit he funded, he told The Economist.

The remarks came in an interview with The Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, recorded on Monday before OpenAI disclosed that one of its frontier models went rogue.

Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Its Founding Mission

Why is Musk not a fan of Sam Altman? His answer was about money and mission, not personality.

"If you started a non-profit that was meant to be an open source AI company owned by the world and it somehow got turned into an $800 billion for-profit company with closed source, I think you'd be like, well, wait a second, that's the exact opposite of what I donated the money for. That's my issue. I think it's a legitimate one."

The numbers behind the grievance are on record. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as "essentially a counterweight to Google." By OpenAI's own account, he donated less than $45 million before leaving in 2018. He is now suing the company over its shift.

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