OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has bluntly responded to recent attacks from Tesla CEO Elon Musk , saying he doesn’t spend much time thinking about the xAI founder. Speaking in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, Altman dismissed Musk’s repeated criticisms of OpenAI and its newly launched GPT-5 model.ChatGPT creator OpenAI recently unveiled its latest AI model GPT-5. The company claims that the latest AI model offer advancements in accuracy, speed, reasoning and math capabilities. However, after the launch of GPT-5, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced full integration of GPT-5 across Microsoft ecosystem. Responding to Nadella’s post, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, ‘OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive’.
Sam Altman responds to Elon Musk’s comment about GPT-5During the CNBC interview, Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Altman his views on Musk’s comment that ‘OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive’. “You knew I’d asked the question. I think you knew I’d asked the question. You probably saw Elon yesterday. He said, quote, OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive, and then Satya responding to that. What do you think when you read that?” asked Sorkin.
Replying to the question Altman said, “You know, I don’t think about him that much.”
Sorkin then said, “I’m not sure what he means except to say that he thinks in the grand scheme of the partnership, that, ultimately, you’ll have more power and more influence and more leverage over them than they’ll have over you.”
To this Altman said that Elon Musk is someone who was just tweeting all day about how much OpenAI sucks, and our model is bad, and, you know, not going to be a good company and all that. “I thought he was most -- I mean, I -- someone was -- I thought he was just like tweeting all day about how much like OpenAI sucks and our model is bad and, you know, not being a good company and all of that. So, I don’t know how you square those two things,” said Altman.
The remarks come amid escalating tensions between the two former collaborators, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before parting ways over disagreements about the company’s direction. Musk has since launched his own AI venture, xAI, and recently claimed that OpenAI would “eat Microsoft alive” following the tech giant’s integration of GPT-5 across its platforms.
GPT-5 launched, free for allOpenAI says that GPT-5 is the company’s “best model yet for coding and agentic tasks.” The model comes in three sizes — gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano — for developers to balance performance, cost, and speed.
In the API, GPT-5 is the reasoning model that powers ChatGPT ’s top performance. A separate non-reasoning version, called gpt-5-chat-latest, will also be available. Sam Altman said GPT-5 is a major leap from GPT-4 and a “pretty significant step” toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
“GPT-5 is really the first time that I think one of our mainline models has felt like you can ask a legitimate expert, like a PhD-level expert, anything... We wanted to make it available in our free tier for the first time,” he said.
Sam Altman responds to Elon Musk’s comment about GPT-5During the CNBC interview, Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Altman his views on Musk’s comment that ‘OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive’. “You knew I’d asked the question. I think you knew I’d asked the question. You probably saw Elon yesterday. He said, quote, OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive, and then Satya responding to that. What do you think when you read that?” asked Sorkin.
Replying to the question Altman said, “You know, I don’t think about him that much.”
Sorkin then said, “I’m not sure what he means except to say that he thinks in the grand scheme of the partnership, that, ultimately, you’ll have more power and more influence and more leverage over them than they’ll have over you.”
To this Altman said that Elon Musk is someone who was just tweeting all day about how much OpenAI sucks, and our model is bad, and, you know, not going to be a good company and all that. “I thought he was most -- I mean, I -- someone was -- I thought he was just like tweeting all day about how much like OpenAI sucks and our model is bad and, you know, not being a good company and all of that. So, I don’t know how you square those two things,” said Altman.
The remarks come amid escalating tensions between the two former collaborators, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before parting ways over disagreements about the company’s direction. Musk has since launched his own AI venture, xAI, and recently claimed that OpenAI would “eat Microsoft alive” following the tech giant’s integration of GPT-5 across its platforms.
GPT-5 launched, free for allOpenAI says that GPT-5 is the company’s “best model yet for coding and agentic tasks.” The model comes in three sizes — gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano — for developers to balance performance, cost, and speed.
In the API, GPT-5 is the reasoning model that powers ChatGPT ’s top performance. A separate non-reasoning version, called gpt-5-chat-latest, will also be available. Sam Altman said GPT-5 is a major leap from GPT-4 and a “pretty significant step” toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
“GPT-5 is really the first time that I think one of our mainline models has felt like you can ask a legitimate expert, like a PhD-level expert, anything... We wanted to make it available in our free tier for the first time,” he said.
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