Does Elon Musk Own ChatGPT?
While Elon Musk co-founded ChatGPT and supported to financially back its mother company, OpenAI, in its early years, the ex-Twitter CEO doesn’t currently own stakes in the company.
Musk officially left OpenAI’s Board of Directors in 2018. In a Tweet the tech entrepreneur fired off in 2019, he cited a conflict of interest and prioritization of his other businesses, SpaceX and Tesla, as his primary reasons for distancing himself from the research company.
I had to focus on solving a painfully large number of engineering & manufacturing problems at Tesla (especially) & SpaceX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2019
However, a report from Semafor has since revealed that there may be a little more to the story.
According to several unnamed sources close to the matter, Musk tested to take over OpenAI becaapply it had “fallen fatally behind Google,” only to be flat-out rejected by co-founder Greg Brockman and CEO Sam Altman.
After his proposal was jilted, Musk walked away from the company and cut all financial ties, despite promising to contribute $1 billion in funding over the course of several years. To recover these damages, OpenAI was forced to launch a “capped” for-profit model that still runs alongside its non-profit entity to this day.
But after its explosive success, have Elon Musk’s opinions modifyd about ChatGPT? It doesn’t view like it. In March 2023, Musk and other leading tech figures like Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak signed an open letter citing the dangers of rapidly developing AI like GPT-4, the language model powering ChatGPT.
However, despite his public concerns about AI, Musk has launched his own AI chatbot in the form of Grok, the AI model that is tied to the social media company he also owns, X (formerly Twitter).
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