Sam Altman says Elon Musk is "clearly a bully" who likes to pick fights with fellow billionaires

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke about his ongoing feud with Elon Musk on Honestly with Bari Weiss, a podcast by The Free Press.

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00:00Look, I don't live inside Elon's head, so this is a little bit of speculation.

00:05Elon definitely did a lot to help OpenAI in the early days.

00:08And in spite of all of this, I'm very grateful.

00:10And I think he's just a sort of legendary entrepreneur.

00:13He's also clearly a bully.

00:15And he's also someone who clearly likes to get in fights.

00:17You know, right now it's me.

00:18It's been Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, lots of other people.

00:22And I think fundamentally, this is about OpenAI is doing really well.

00:26Elon cares about doing really well.

00:29Elon started and now runs a very direct competitor that's trying to do exactly what OpenAI does.

00:38Everything we're doing, I believe Elon would be happy about if he were in control of the company.