In a recent interview, Sam Altman describes Elon Musk as a bully, which highlighted their troubled relationship.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has opened up about his complicated relationship with billionaire Elon Musk, calling the Tesla CEO a “bully.”

The two co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but Musk departed the board in 2018 and has since become a vocal critic of the company, even launching a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.

Altman claimed that Musk's opposition to OpenAI's potential for-profit transition comes from his desire to remain in control of the AI start-up.

The tension continues to grow between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Tesla owner Elon Musk. Altman didn’t stop firing shots at Musk as he recently labeled him as a clear bully who enjoys picking fights with other rivals.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman have been in a long-running feud over generative artificial intelligence, and while the jury is still out on whether or not this technology is a bubble waiting to pop, we can say one thing for certain: Employees of both companies are hitting it big.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are now locked in a simultaneous battle to advance AI and prevail in a courtroom fight over the future of OpenAI, the organization they founded together before parting ways.

A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and best avoid an artificial intelligence ‘dictatorship’ is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing conversion into a for-profit company.

Sam Altman called Elon Musk a “bully” for his continued criticism of and several lawsuits against OpenAI, the organization they cofounded in 2015. OpenAI released an extensive blog post on Dec. 13 to back up its claim that Musk always wanted OpenAI to be a for-profit organization.