Sam Altman says he doesn’t take into accounts Elon Musk that a lot

Sam Altman has pushed aside longtime rival Elon Musk’s threats that OpenAI is ready to dominate Microsoft, next the firms introduced that OpenAI’s original AI style shall be integrated into Microsoft merchandise.

On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI’s GPT-5 carrier could be launching throughout platforms together with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry — prompting a response from Musk that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive.”

Nadella desired to downplay the problem. “People have been trying for 50 years and that’s the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete,” he stated on X, additionally expressing pleasure for Musk’s personal Grok 4 chatbot, which is to be had on Azure on a restricted preview.

OpenAI CEO Altman shared his personal repartee on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday, pronouncing, when requested of Musk’s enter, “You know, I don’t think about him that much.”

He went on to query the that means of Musk’s statements, additionally noting of the tech billionaire, “I thought he was just, like, tweeting all day [on X] about how much OpenAI sucks, and our model is bad, and, you know, [we’re] not gonna be a good company and all that.”

CNBC has reached out to Musk-owned X for remark.

Altman and Musk have regularly exchanged barbs as a part of a long-storied feud that dates again to their war of words over the last challenge of OpenAI, which they co-founded in 2015 as a nonprofit AI analysis lab.

OpenAI has since been searching for to transform right into a for-profit entity and capitalize on meteoric call for for its viral ChatGPT product, with Microsoft stepping in as a manage backer. Musk in the past filed — and has since dropped — a lawsuit towards the corporate, bringing up breach of pledge.

Previous this date, the Tesla boss additionally led a consortium that introduced to procure the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Altman declined the proposal with a curt “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want” on social media. He one after the other advised CNBC on the day that he concept the takeover trade in was once an struggle to “slow down a competitor.”