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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls Musk’s bid an attempt to ‘slow us down’


In an interview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Elon Musk's unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit as 'an attempt to slow [OpenAI] down.'

“He’s raised a lot of money for [his AI company] xAI, and they’re trying to compete with us from a technological perspective.” Altman went on to quip, “I think [Musk’s] whole life is from a position of insecurity […] I don’t think he’s a happy person.” In an interview on Tuesday, Larry Summers, an OpenAI board member, said he hadn’t received “any formal communication [about the bid] of any kind outside of media reports.”

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