Elon Musk and Sam Altman spar on X after Apple files OpenAI lawsuit

Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X, highlighting the billionaires' long-standing tussle over OpenAI's evolution. Musk and Altman helped to start OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab alongside a band of engineers and scientists. In 2018, Musk left OpenAI's board after donating tens of millions to the organization, although he later objected to Altman's efforts to construct "an opaque web of for-profit OpenAI affiliates" in a lawsuit that went to trial in California this year. A jury ruled in favor of Altman, and Musk said he would appeal the case. Weeks later, Musk's company SpaceX — which controls the X social platform, the xAI lab that challenges OpenAI and the Starlink broadband internet service — completed its landmark initial public offering. SpaceX raised a record $75 billion as it promoted plans to launch data centers into space, in addition to ambitions in enterprise AI applications and interplanetary transportation. Meanwhile, OpenAI has filed confidentially for its own IPO. This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI deb...