The long-standing animosity between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has intensified, marked by OpenAI's termination of a key partnership and Musk's renewed personal attacks. The conflict recently escalated following OpenAI's decision to end its collaboration with Cursor, a company recently acquired by SpaceX. reported that "OpenAI is ending its partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX." The decision, as stated by OpenAI and was made because the company "cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service," citing its experience with Elon Musk’s companies allegedly violating contracts. Cursor’s direct access to OpenAI models is slated to end on November 12.
In response to the escalating situation, Elon Musk reportedly launched a scathing attack on Sam Altman. detailed that Musk called Altman an “utterly untrustworthy A**HOLE” who “stole an open source nonprofit.” These remarks were made while Musk was commenting on Apple’s recent request for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI and forensic supervision of the company.
