Sam Altman has dismissed longtime rival Elon Musk’s warnings that OpenAI is set to dominate Microsoft, after the companies announced that OpenAI’s latest AI model will be incorporated into Microsoft products.
On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI’s GPT-5 service would be launching across platforms including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry — prompting a response from Musk that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive.”
Nadella sought to downplay the issue. “People have been trying for 50 years and that’s the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete,” he said on X, also expressing excitement for Musk’s own Grok 4 chatbot, which is available on Azure on a limited preview.
OpenAI CEO Altman shared his own repartee on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday, saying, when asked of Musk’s input, “You know, I don’t think about him that much.”
He went on to question the meaning of Musk’s statements, also noting of the tech billionaire, “I thought he was just, like, tweeting all day [on X] about how much OpenAI sucks, and our model is bad, and, you know, [we’re] not gonna be a good company and all that.”
