Elon Musk and Sam Altman cofounded OpenAI

Elon Musk and Sam Altman cofounded OpenAI, but now they're locked in a legal battle. Here's the history of their working relationship and feud.
Elon Musk asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate
Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S.
Musk Clashes With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Over Trump-Supported Stargate AI Data Center Project
Elon Musk is clashing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project touted by President Donald Trump, the latest in a feud between the two billionaires th
Elon Musk clashes with OpenAI's Sam Altman over $500 billion AI project Donald Trump announced
Elon Musk, a close Donald Trump advisor questioned the value of the investment. Sam Altman responded, saying Elon Musk was “wrong, as you surely know”.
After fight with Sam Altman, Musk digs up OpenAI co-founder's tweet thanking Reid Hoffman for Trump's defeat in 2020
It all began with US President Donald Trump's announcement of a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle to create a $500 billion artificial intelligence initiative called Stargate. Musk claimed that the initiative did not have the amount they had announced.
'What Is Great For The Country Isn't Always What's Optimal For Your Companies': Sam Altman Lashes Out At Elon Musk Amid Stargate Squabble
Musk has been targeting Altman in the courts and publicly for months. The pair started OpenAI together nearly a decade ago as a nonprofit. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and founded his
How OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Thinking About AGI and Superintelligence in 2025
The OpenAI CEO recently published a blog post reflecting on AI progress, as well as his brief ouster from the company.
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Why Sam Altman Joined Forces With Larry Ellison and Took a Step Back From Microsoft
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 ...
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Sam Altman's Worldcoin Surges After Trump Teases $500 Billion OpenAI Plan
The price of Worldcoin jumped Wednesday, leading the crypto market after OpenAI's $500 billion AI initiative was unveiled.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: The new No. 1 ability you need to succeed—it's not raw intelligence
Knowing how to ask the right questions is more valuable than knowing the answers, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — especially as ...
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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, now says he is more confident of a fast AI takeoff. A fast AI takeoff is more possible than he thought a couple of years ago. He suggested this could happen within a ...
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OpenAI's Altman Slams Brakes on o3 Hype After Weeks of Teasing AGI Breakthrough
"Cut your expectations by 100x," says Sam Altman, who also recently predicted superintelligence was just "a few thousand days ...
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Sam Altman says he ‘stalked’ his OpenAI cofounder to convince him to join the company
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he "stalked” Ilya Sutskever to convince him to join in his quest to build an artificial general intelligence, which many others were hesitant to do at the time.
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously
OpenAI announced that it is launching a research preview of Operator, an AI agent that can take control of a browser and perform tasks.