{"id":3359,"date":"2026-07-14T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:40:07","slug":"elon-musk-and-sam-altman-are-accusing-each-other-of-scamming-investors-as-spacex-and-openai-jockey-to-lead-ai-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and Sam Altman are accusing each other of scamming investors as SpaceX and OpenAI jockey to lead AI revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The longstanding feud between the OpenAI cofounders reignited over the weekend when the world\u2019s richest man chimed in about Apple\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3357\">U.S. launches new strikes on Iran while Tehran mocks Trump\u2019s reversal on charging for Hormuz transits \u2014 \u201820% is of course too much. We will be fair\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Apple sued OpenAI and two former Apple employees who joined the AI startup, alleging they stole company secrets to help build up OpenAI\u2019s hardware business. OpenAI has denied the claims, telling multiple outlets it \u201chas no interest in other companies\u2019 trade secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Musk pounced on the Apple news to lambast Altman. \u201cScam Altman strikes again,\u201d Musk wrote, reviving a Trumpian nickname he has previously used to describe the OpenAI CEO. Over the next day, the SpaceX chief doubled down, replying to several other posts with put-downs like \u201cHe takes scamming to a whole new level\u201d and \u201cHe might literally love scamming more than any human alive!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Altman shot back in a reply on X Saturday in which he claimed Musk is \u201cthe one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk then got in one last jab: \u201cWe start flying them next year,\u201d he said referring to the orbital data centers Altman mentioned. \u201cMaybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves. After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple\u2019s phone technology! Wow\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s final missive alludes to a claim that is central to the origin of the feud\u2014that Altman allegedly \u201cstole\u201d OpenAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Feud origins<\/h2>\n<p>Back in 2015, Musk and Altman worked together closely to get OpenAI off the ground. At the time, Altman was president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, famous for helping launch companies like Airbnb and DoorDash, while Musk was already a multibillionaire and was running Tesla along with SpaceX simultaneously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair joined forces with several other cofounders to start OpenAI as a nonprofit AI research lab \u201cto advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.\u201d One of the early motivations was reportedly to prevent Google from getting a monopoly over AI.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet the pair had a falling out when Musk reportedly decided OpenAI was falling behind in the AI race. In 2018, he made an offer to take control of the company and considered folding it into Tesla after having already invested tens of millions of dollars, with a total of roughly $1 billion promised over the next several years.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Altman and other original OpenAI team members rejected the takeover proposal. Musk left OpenAI\u2019s board and cut off the funding he had pledged. He would later lead a group of investors that last year offered to buy the company for $97.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3355\">The real reason college costs 43% of family income isn\u2019t tuition<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After the release of ChatGPT in 2022 made OpenAI one of the hottest startups on the planet, Musk and Altman\u2019s feud spilled into the courtroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk sued OpenAI and Altman in 2024, alleging Altman had gone against OpenAI\u2019s original nonprofit mission by constructing an \u201copaque web of for-profit OpenAI affiliates\u201d and prioritizing commercial returns. As part of his suit, Musk asked for $150 billion in damages that would be destined for a charitable trust and requested OpenAI\u2019s for-profit structure be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI argued that Musk turned against the organization only after his attempt to control it failed. When OpenAI rejected his proposal in 2018, Musk said its \u201cprobability of success was zero\u201d and that he planned to build an artificial-general-intelligence competitor within Tesla, according to a blog post published by the company.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in May found Musk did not meet the statute of limitations for his case and tossed out the suit. Musk has said he will appeal the ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the lawsuit may have been dismissed, Musk and Altman\u2019s feud is anything but. Musk launched his own AI company xAI in 2023 and released the large language model Grok in the same year. Earlier this year, Musk\u2019s SpaceX acquired xAI and later rebranded itself as SpaceXAI, billing its newfound AI business as an essential part of the company\u2019s future prospects and valuation.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX went public in a record-setting IPO in June, the same month OpenAI confidentially filed for its own IPO.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the tension between the two companies erupted again as OpenAI released its new model GPT-5.6 Sol one day after SpaceXAI announced Grok 4.5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of benchmarks that suggest 5.6 sol is the best model in the world right now,\u201d wrote Altman on X, \u201cbut the most reliable way to tell is that elon is obsessed with me again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3350\">Mitch McConnell breaks silence, said he was \u2018briefly unconscious\u2019 after a fall, got treated for mild pneumonia<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social media fight erupted after their companies launched competing AI models one day apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billionaires"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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