{"id":961158,"date":"2025-09-12T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961158"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:36:04","slug":"elon-musk-helped-us-start-openai-now-he-runs-a-kind-of-clone-sam-altman-recalls-rivalry-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/12\/elon-musk-helped-us-start-openai-now-he-runs-a-kind-of-clone-sam-altman-recalls-rivalry-and-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elon Musk helped us start OpenAI&#8230; now he runs a kind of clone&#8230;&#8221; Sam Altman recalls rivalry and friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has opened up about his complex relationship with Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI and founder of xAI. Speaking in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Altman acknowledged Musk\u2019s crucial role in helping start OpenAI in 2015, calling him \u201can incredible hero, a great jewel for humanity.\u201d However, their professional and personal bond has since soured. Musk left OpenAI\u2019s board in 2018, later criticizing the company and filing multiple lawsuits, while launching xAI, a direct competitor. Altman described Musk\u2019s current approach as running \u201ca kind of clone\u201d of OpenAI, reflecting both rivalry and tension.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and OpenAI: founding, contributions, and early rift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has opened up about his complex relationship with Elon Musk, co-founder of OpenAI and founder of xAI. Speaking in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Altman acknowledged Musk\u2019s crucial role in helping start OpenAI in 2015, calling him \u201can incredible hero, a great jewel for humanity.\u201d However, their professional and personal bond has since soured. Musk left OpenAI\u2019s board in 2018, later criticizing the company and filing multiple lawsuits, while launching xAI, a direct competitor. Altman described Musk\u2019s current approach as running \u201ca kind of clone\u201d of OpenAI, reflecting both rivalry and tension. Elon Musk and OpenAI: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}