A while ago, Elon Musk did an interview to discuss various topics; One of them was the evolution of artificial intelligence and the company he founded, OpenAI. Musk founded OpenAI with the company’s current CEO, Sam Altman, but left the company later on. Also, in the past short time, Musk said that Microsoft is effectively controlling OpenAI with its huge investment of 10 billion dollars. This statement came from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.Musk said Microsoft was controlling OpenAI
About a month ago, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX shared his thoughts on the exponential growth of artificial intelligence, how it can develop bias, and his plan to create his own AI chatbot dedicated to generating accurate answers. Throughout this interview, Musk was asked about the origin of OpenAI, which he originally founded as a nonprofit company dedicated to developing artificial intelligence in a safe and transparent way.
Since leaving the company in 2018, Musk said many of its founding principles, such as OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, being closed source, and being actively acquired by Microsoft, have been trashed. Stating that OpenAI was established to be “a counterbalance to Google”, Musk states that the company has a great say in OpenAI by partnering with Microsoft.
According to Musk, there are only two big players in the artificial intelligence game: Google and its artificial intelligence division DeepMind, and now Microsoft and OpenAI. Musk also says that he will create a third option that will be designed to find the highest truth for people.
Nadella denies Musk’s claim
Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with CNBC to discuss AI developments, and during the interview, Nadella was asked for her thoughts on Musk’s comments. In response to Musk’s comments that Microsoft is effectively controlling OpenAI with its massive $10 billion investment, Nadella simply replied, “that’s not really true.”Nadella says OpenAI is still controlled by a nonprofit board and Microsoft has no controlling interest in OpenAI. Also, Nadella states that OpenAI is very comfortable partnering with OpenAI because OpenAI has a “limited profit”. The Microsoft CEO also says that Microsoft is the first company to partner with a nonprofit with a board of directors.
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