Sam Altman Criticizes Elon Musk Over OpenAI Takeover Attempt: ‘Don’t Think He’s a Happy Person’

Sam Altman Criticizes Elon Musk Over OpenAI Takeover Attempt: OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk--escalated following the latter's takeover proposal of the former's artificial intelligence company, Altman, in his latest remark, attributed Musk's move to "insecurity".

On the sidelines of the AI summit in Paris, Altman said that Musk should build a better product if he wants to compete, instead of resorting to "crazy stuff".

Altman reiterated that OpenAI is "not for sale" and called Musk's proposal a tactic "to try to mess with" the ChatGPT maker.

"I feel for the guy. I don't think he's a happy person," he added as cited cited by multiple US publications, including the New York Post and the Hill.

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Altman further reiterated that OpenAi is not for sale after Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited offer. "The company is not for sale. It's another one of his tactics to try to mess with us," he said.

When asked what Musk wants of the deal in the interveiw, Altman said, "He's probably just trying to slow us down."

The comments come a day after a group of investors led by Musk made a $97.4 billion bid to acquire the nonprofit entity that controls OpenAI.

This escalated a long-running power struggle between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the future of artificial intelligence.

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The offer, however, was turned down by Altman and said, "No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want."

The top executive of the ChatGPT maker firm further told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris that Musk's offer was just aimed at gaining a competitive advantage, “I think he is probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor.”

"I wish he would just compete by building a better product, but I think there's been a lot of tactics, many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff," Altman added.

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