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Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

I have a bunch of thoughts and opinions on it, but as a statement of facts, that was otherwise mostly correct.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. Look, I don't live inside Elon's head, so this is a little bit of speculation. Elon definitely did a lot to help open AI in the early days, and in spite of all of this, I'm very grateful, and I think he's just a sort of legendary entrepreneur. He's also clearly a bully, and he's also someone who clearly likes to get in fights. You know, right now it's me.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. Look, I don't live inside Elon's head, so this is a little bit of speculation. Elon definitely did a lot to help open AI in the early days, and in spite of all of this, I'm very grateful, and I think he's just a sort of legendary entrepreneur. He's also clearly a bully, and he's also someone who clearly likes to get in fights. You know, right now it's me.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Yeah. Look, I don't live inside Elon's head, so this is a little bit of speculation. Elon definitely did a lot to help open AI in the early days, and in spite of all of this, I'm very grateful, and I think he's just a sort of legendary entrepreneur. He's also clearly a bully, and he's also someone who clearly likes to get in fights. You know, right now it's me.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

It's been Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, lots of other people. And I think fundamentally, this is about OpenAI is doing really well. Elon cares about doing really well. Elon started and now runs a very direct competitor that's trying to do exactly what OpenAI does. And I'll point out as a structure, you know, it's like a public benefit corp.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

It's been Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, lots of other people. And I think fundamentally, this is about OpenAI is doing really well. Elon cares about doing really well. Elon started and now runs a very direct competitor that's trying to do exactly what OpenAI does. And I'll point out as a structure, you know, it's like a public benefit corp.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

It's been Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, lots of other people. And I think fundamentally, this is about OpenAI is doing really well. Elon cares about doing really well. Elon started and now runs a very direct competitor that's trying to do exactly what OpenAI does. And I'll point out as a structure, you know, it's like a public benefit corp.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And I heard Elon has majority ownership and control and seems like a reasonable thing he would do. I think a lot of the press has been misreported. Even if we go through with any of the conversion ideas or evolution ideas we're talking about, it's not like the nonprofit goes away. The nonprofit doesn't stop being a nonprofit and becomes a for-profit.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And I heard Elon has majority ownership and control and seems like a reasonable thing he would do. I think a lot of the press has been misreported. Even if we go through with any of the conversion ideas or evolution ideas we're talking about, it's not like the nonprofit goes away. The nonprofit doesn't stop being a nonprofit and becomes a for-profit.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And I heard Elon has majority ownership and control and seems like a reasonable thing he would do. I think a lot of the press has been misreported. Even if we go through with any of the conversion ideas or evolution ideas we're talking about, it's not like the nonprofit goes away. The nonprofit doesn't stop being a nonprofit and becomes a for-profit.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

We've talked publicly about maybe we evolve our current LLC into a PBC, but anything we do would strengthen the nonprofit. The nonprofit would continue to exist. It would continue to serve people. hopefully better serve the same purpose.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

We've talked publicly about maybe we evolve our current LLC into a PBC, but anything we do would strengthen the nonprofit. The nonprofit would continue to exist. It would continue to serve people. hopefully better serve the same purpose.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

We've talked publicly about maybe we evolve our current LLC into a PBC, but anything we do would strengthen the nonprofit. The nonprofit would continue to exist. It would continue to serve people. hopefully better serve the same purpose.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And the overall mission of the company that you talked about, which is develop this incredible technology, do it in a way that we think is maximally beneficial to humans and get it out into the world for people. We keep doing that. I'm incredibly proud of our track record on doing that so far. People, as you were saying earlier, use ChatGPT and love it. There's an incredible free tier of ChatGPT.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And the overall mission of the company that you talked about, which is develop this incredible technology, do it in a way that we think is maximally beneficial to humans and get it out into the world for people. We keep doing that. I'm incredibly proud of our track record on doing that so far. People, as you were saying earlier, use ChatGPT and love it. There's an incredible free tier of ChatGPT.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And the overall mission of the company that you talked about, which is develop this incredible technology, do it in a way that we think is maximally beneficial to humans and get it out into the world for people. We keep doing that. I'm incredibly proud of our track record on doing that so far. People, as you were saying earlier, use ChatGPT and love it. There's an incredible free tier of ChatGPT.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

We lose money on it. It's not ad supported or anything. We just want to put AI in people's hands. We continue to want to deploy this technology so that people co-evolve with it, understand it, that the world is going through this process it's going through right now of contending with AI and eventually AGI and thinking how it's going to go.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

We lose money on it. It's not ad supported or anything. We just want to put AI in people's hands. We continue to want to deploy this technology so that people co-evolve with it, understand it, that the world is going through this process it's going through right now of contending with AI and eventually AGI and thinking how it's going to go.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

We lose money on it. It's not ad supported or anything. We just want to put AI in people's hands. We continue to want to deploy this technology so that people co-evolve with it, understand it, that the world is going through this process it's going through right now of contending with AI and eventually AGI and thinking how it's going to go.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

And everything we're doing, I believe Elon would be happy about if he weren't in control of the company. He left when he thought we were on a trajectory to certainly fail and also wouldn't do something where he had total control over OpenAI.