Elon Musk’s run as one of many luckiest individuals within the tech world was prolonged once more Friday because the opera of OpenAI started to play out. Simply as X/Twitter’s biggest advertisers were abandoning ship amid a(nother) obvious endorsement of an anti-semitic comment by Musk, the sacking of CEO Sam Altman stole the present from Friday onward. It had extra twists and turns than an M. Night time Shyamalan movie—and Musk was on Twitter/X nonstop joking, laughing and commenting in regards to the state of affairs.
The flood of feedback can be anticipated in any circumstance, given Musk’s ties to OpenAI. (He was a cofounder of the corporate however left the board in 2018 after an influence wrestle. Since then, he has taken pictures at Altman recurrently.) However the speedy tempo of change and the media’s fascination with it distracted consideration away from Musk’s most up-to-date issues with X and promoting.
The overwhelming majority of Musk’s tweets on the Altman matter consisted of a laughing emoji, usually in response to memes or search results on his own recently-launched Grok AI platform, however he didn’t hesitate to take just a few veiled pictures at Altman, generally by agreeing with different vital posts and generally extra instantly, voicing help for Ilya Sutskever, the board member who reportedly led the movement to dismiss Altman.
Precisely
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2023
I’m very fearful.
Ilya has an excellent ethical compass and doesn’t search energy.
He wouldn’t take such drastic motion except he felt it was completely mandatory.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2023
OpenAI isn’t publicly traded and all the cash on this planet received’t matter if AI goes flawed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2023
Musk additionally accepted reward from customers claiming the world’s richest man foresaw the chaos at OpenAI, saying “I wish I was wrong.” He reiterated factors he has made previously about Microsoft taking management of OpenAI, altering the language a bit to say “Microsoft achieved de facto control of OpenAI some time ago. It is only becoming obvious now.”
And, in true Elon style, he made jokes.
He joked at Microsoft’s Clippy changing into sentient, saying the mascot “might paperclip us all!” and chuckled that Altman and Greg Brockman, who was sacked as chairman earlier than resigning as president of OpenAI amid the chaos, would have to use Microsoft Teams now that they’re becoming a member of Microsoft. (Altman was even fired on Google Meet, Brockman mentioned in his model of occasions, an implicit diss in opposition to OpenAI-backer Microsoft.) He even poked incoming CEO Emmett Shear, with a meme from the movie Office Space.
The chaos at OpenAI has additionally apparently meant some late nights for the Grok crew, as they had been seemingly pushed to advance the know-how shortly, to capitalize on the adjustments within the AI world—and drive extra paid customers to Twitter/X, as these are the one individuals who can entry to Musk’s AI program.
xAI is burning the 4am oil
LFG!!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2023
