Elon Musk and Sam Altman rekindled their public feud at X this week. The controversy comes days after Apple sued OpenAI for privacy theft.
The exchange quickly grew, with billionaires trading insults against their rival companies’ intellectual property.
Race Controlled
Saliva follows The loss of Musk’s May trial. The judges ruled that they waited too long to file a lawsuit over OpenAI’s profit shifting.
Musk he co-founded OpenAI with Altman in 2015 before leaving his organization in 2018. The controversy escalated after Musk pushed to control the lab and later reneged on promised funding, which hurt OpenAI’s finances.
Weeks after the verdict, SpaceX completed its historic IPOraise 75 billion dollars. OpenAI made a secret entry to their list, adding new competition to the AI industry.
X Exchange Changes Man
Taking action Apple’s case against OpenAIMusk wrote, “Scam Altman strikes again…” He followed up with a series of mocking posts calling Altman involved in fraud.
Altman returned, referring to the timing of OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol release against Implementation of Musk’s Grok 4.5I say that the founder of SpaceX is ‘obsessed’ with him.
there are many benchmarks that show that the 5.6 sol is the best model in the world, but the surest way to know is that elon likes me too.
— Sam Altman, X
X’s chief product officer, Nikita Bier, also weighed in, joking about OpenAI’s “trade secrets” amid Apple’s suit.
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