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
Musk 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 Musk — co 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
ImageElon MuskGage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- Sam Altman co-founds OpenAIDecember 2015