How Sam Altman and Elon Musk’s Partnership Turned Toxic
Elon Musk and Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab in 2015 with the mission of creating artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. The two built an alliance to try to prevent Google from dominating the AI industry. A lot has changed since then. OpenAI has gone commercial, with billions of dollars of funding from Microsoft. And last week, Musk filed a lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI, alleging that he’d abandoned the startup’s core mission in pursuit of profit. WSJ reporter Keach Hagey tells host Cordilia James how the tech leaders’ bromance turned toxic and what their legal battle means for AI development.
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab in 2015 with the mission of creating artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. The two built an alliance to try to prevent Google from dominating the AI industry. A lot has changed since then. OpenAI has gone commercial, with billions of dollars of funding from Microsoft. And last week, Musk filed a lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI, alleging that he’d abandoned the startup’s core mission in pursuit of profit. WSJ reporter Keach Hagey tells host Cordilia James how the tech leaders’ bromance turned toxic and what their legal battle means for AI development.
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