February 17, 2020

Elon Musk: "OpenAI should be more open"

Years after leaving OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models.'s board, Elon Musk tweets that the research lab he co-founded is not living up to its name.

Quote

[OpenAI] should be more open imo

What it was for

Elon MuskMusk helped launch OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. as a nonprofit counterweight to Google, then clashed over direction and funding. The tweet foreshadowed his later attacks on OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models.'s MicrosoftThe software giant behind Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox — founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. partnership and his founding of xAI.

People

  • Elon Muskco founder

Companies

  • OpenAI

Why it's here

The moment a co-founder publicly broke with OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models.'s openness mission.

Why it mattered

It framed later debates about closed frontier models and corporate control.

What it solved

Observers needed language for the gap between OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models.'s brand and its practices.

Media

  • Elon Musk
    ImageElon Musk

    Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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