Sam Altman Says He Can’t Wait to Get Elon Musk Under Oath

Sam Altman is pumped to tackle Elon Musk in courtroom.

“Actually excited to get Elon beneath oath in a number of months, Christmas in April!” the OpenAI CEO mentioned in a Tuesday night X publish.

He additionally reposted his chief safety officer Jason Kwon’s X publish, with the caption “regarding.”

The publish contained screenshots of a courtroom submitting from OpenAI’s attorneys, which mentioned that Musk most well-liked utilizing messaging apps like Sign or XChat with message retention settings of per week or much less.

Altman and Musk took their yearslong public feud to the subsequent degree in 2024. Musk, who’s Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO, launched a lawsuit towards OpenAI and Altman in February 2024, accusing Altman of jeopardizing its nonprofit mission.

Musk mentioned that he contributed $38 million to OpenAI, pondering it will stay a nonprofit. He was one of many firm’s founders, together with Altman, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, and others.

Regardless of OpenAI’s attorneys’ makes an attempt to have the case thrown out, a California judge mentioned in a January listening to that there was sufficient proof to go to trial, which is ready for April.

The billionaire duo have been trading barbs on social media. Musk attacked OpenAI’s ChatGPT on January 20, writing “Do not let your family members use ChatGPT.” He was responding to an X publish alleging that the chatbot has been linked to a number of deaths since 2022.

Altman responded to Musk’s publish, slamming Tesla’s Autopilot system as unsafe, and questioning xAI’s Grok chatbot. Grok has confronted criticism from governments in a number of international locations after experiences of Grok users importing footage of girls and minors and asking the chatbot to undress them.

Representatives for Musk and Altman didn’t reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.