A decade ago, in the list of the main founders of OpenAI, the creative company of one of the greatest artificial intelligence developments (AI) to date, were two partners whose personalities have ended up starring in the most shocking shock of the world technological elite : Sam Altman and Elon Musk. The last episode, the second offer to acquire the company of AI, is only the 10 -year provisional epilogue of clashes. This is the chronology of the long disagreement resolved in the networks, the courts, the market and in the circles of power of the White House.
Openai is born. A dozen investors, among which were Sam Altman and Elon Musk, collect about one billion dollars to found in 2015 OpenAI. The objective, develop advances in neural networks to achieve the next step, an artificial intelligence capable of responding and learning from a basic human interaction to perform all kinds of tasks, including creative. In the concept the first differences begin to emerge. Altman defends that the organization does not have profit and seeks to put AI at the service of humanity. In just two years, shortly before the launch of Chatgpt, Elon Musk makes his discrepancies evident with the course and urges the governors of the United States to supervise and avoid the risks of AI, which qualifies as “the greatest existential threat to humanity ”
Musk leaves the company. The magnate owner of Tesla and Spacex, considered the richest man in the world, tries to take control of the company by believing that there were interests of other multinational companies. Altman and the other founders reject their proposal, Musk leaves Openai in February 2018 and withdraws his investment plan on it.
Continuous criticism of OpenAI. Despite its march, or its dismissal, according to some sources from the artificial intelligence company, Musk never ceases to have the corporation and criticizes it openly, especially with messages that contradicted the founding spirit that Altman defended: “Transparency” . Musk declares a MIT Technology Review that “OpenAi should be more open”, which is based on a culture of secrecy and lacks the necessary security.
Musk Buy Twitter and is born chatgpt. The tycoon acquires the social network in October 2022, strips it of all the limits of content moderation and uses it for its ideological proclamations, including the continuous attacks on the company it left. “Openai began as an open and non -profit source organization. Neither of the two things are still true, ”he said in his new social network. Altman replicates that it is a “limited benefits corporation.” “We want to increase our ability to raise funds while fulfilling our mission and no pre -existing legal structure that we know achieves the appropriate balance,” justifies the director of Openai. A month later, before the launch of Chatgpt, the conversational robot that leads AI to computers and mobiles around the world, Musk accuses Altman of having used his social platform to train Chatgpt.
The attempt to stop chatgpt. The success of this application, with millions of discharges, only enlivens the confrontation between technological companies. Musk accuses Altman of turning the company into a “closed code company and maximum benefit effectively by Microsoft. It is not what he intended at all, ”according to X. Potential AI for humanity ”and ensure that the effects are” positive and manageable. “
Public and counteroffensive fight with XAI. During these 10 years, public confrontations have continued, especially after Twitter’s acquisition to turn it into X. Musk defends the operation to proclaim themselves in “absolutist of freedom of expression.” “Absolutism of freedom of expression with steroids,” Altman replied. In 2023, Elon Musk presents Xai, a company focused on artificial intelligence to compete face to face against the company of which he was founder. In spite of everything, the general director of OpenAI, with a personality opposed to Musk, has tried [la seguridad de la IA] And he wants to make sure that we, the world, have the greatest options to obtain a good result. ”
The rivalry reaches courts. These peace attempts are unsuccessful. Musk for the first time demands Altman and Openai in March 2024 claiming that the management of the company in recent years has violated its foundational principles, which has become “a de facto subsidiary of the closed code of the largest technology company of the world [Microsoft]” Subsequently, Musk withdrew the lawsuit, but claimed Openai again in August 2024 because, supposedly, he was “deceived” to co -confound the company. He also accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of constituting a lucrative monopoly. Openai responded with an accusation against Musk for allegedly setting up a holastic campaign.
Jealous. The economic and social network of Musk to Donald Trump’s presidential career leads the technological tycoon to become the “first friend” of the new president of the United States and he rewards him this year with the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency. His political ascent appeas the animosity against the director of Openai to which he nicknames as “Altman fraud.” But Trump does not enter the fight and announces an alliance (the Stargate project, which includes the company led by Altman) to invest 500,000 million. Musk denies the technological and financial capacity of the project, to which the OpenAi CEO responds, as always, brief: “False, as you surely know. Do you want to come to visit the first place already in progress?
Final climbing. The provisional end of the progressive and permanent confrontation between technological giants explodes on Monday, when a consortium led by Elon Musk has offered 97.4 billion dollars for the purchase of the foundation controlled Openai. Altman responded in X: “No, thanks, but we bought you Twitter [nombre que tenía la red social antes de su cambio de propietario] for 9,740 million dollars, if you want. ” Musk soon replicated, also in X, with a short message and a word game difficult to translate in which he altered with a letter the first name of his enemy: “Scam [estafa] Altman ”.
