OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla spars with Elon Musk over lawsuit
Vinod Khosla, who is the cofounder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures, has called out Elon Musk for suing OpenAI. He termed Musk's move «a case of sour grapes».
Khosla has been an investor in OpenAI since 2019 when the company became «for profit».
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisit«With Elon Musk, feels like a bit of sour grapes in suing OpenAI ChatGpt, not getting in early enough, not staying committed and now a rival effort. Like they say, if you can't innovate, litigate and that's what we have here. Elon of old would be building with us to hit the same goal,» posted Vinod Khosla on X.
Musk was quick to revert, saying, «Vinod doesn’t know what he is talking about here.»
Khosla, then, went on create an elaborate thread on X asking Musk questions about his move and commenting on Musk's motives behind his actions.
"@elonmusk is being self-righteous about the ills of prioritizing profit over benefit to humanity. To the less naive, timelines show Elon left @OpenAI & reneged on his word to “cover whatever of the initial $1B anyone else doesn't provide. He reneged simply because he wanted to wrangle control for himself and for Tesla."
Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman together started the artificial intelligence startup in 2015, but Musk left the firm in 2018. While Musk
