Some don’t know this but Elon Musk is co-founder of OpenAIthe artificial intelligence (AI) company that developed ChatGPT, fueled by a billion-dollar investment from Microsoft, for which the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter criticized it.
According to a report published on the website of Today Crypto, Musk criticized OpenAI last month, saying Microsoft had turned the company into a “money-making machine.”. Originally, the AI lab was founded as a non-profit organization.
For his part, the co-founder and president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, in an interview with The Information, accepted the criticism of the richest man in the world and has said that it is “legitimate”.
“We made a mistake: The system we implemented did not reflect the values we intended to be there. I think we weren’t quick enough to address that, it’s a legitimate criticism of usBrockman told the publication.
Why did Musk leave OpenAI?
Elon Musk left OpenAI in 2018. Some reports say he left because his two other companies, Tesla and SpaceX, were also working on AI technologies, while other reports suggest it was because of disagreements.
Whatever the reason, Musk is no longer associated with the company in any way and had sold all of his shares in the company in 2018.
In 2019, OpenAI declared itself a “for-profit” company and partnered with companies like Microsoft and other large corporations, receiving a financial injection that allowed it to develop and power tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT.
The change from non-profit to for-profit was criticized by Musk: “OpenAI was created as an open source company, which is why I named it ‘Open’ AI, a non-profit, to serve as a counterweight to Google, but has now become a for-profit, closed-source company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not at all what I intended”.
OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), a non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.
Not what I intended at all.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2023