Musk says OpenAI’s shift from nonprofit to closed for-profit is his core gripe with Altman
Kyrannio · x · 2026-07-24
Elon Musk said his core criticism of Sam Altman is that OpenAI began as a nonprofit, open-source-oriented lab but became a large closed-source for-profit company.
He also argued that Anthropic exists because key people on the OpenAI team did not trust Altman; otherwise, they would have stayed. Musk added that, despite personal differences, he is willing to talk “for the good of the world.”
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