Recently, Elon Musk, one of the most successful and controversial businessmen of the 21st century, spoke about the most talked-about technology “venture” of recent years. OpenAI A ‘commercial’ fight broke out between them. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to turn the emerging tech giant into a for-profit company, Elon Musk is trying to prevent OpenAI from becoming a money-driven company.
For those who don’t know, OpenAI is a non-profit organization and Elon Musk was one of the founders. However, due to disagreements in the subsequent period, Elon Musk left his role at OpenAI. However, over the past two years, OpenAI has become the leading company in artificial intelligence technology. Elon MuskIt allowed ‘s to get closer to OpenAI again. However, this time it is not intended for investment, but to prevent its commercial evolution.
Elon Musk founded the profitable company OpenAI in 2017.

Elon Musk claims at every opportunity that OpenAI’s transformation into a money-making company is contrary to the foundation’s mission. to prevent it from becoming a profitable venture. He’s doing his best. Finally, OpenAI shared an article titled “Elon Musk wanted a profit-oriented OpenAI” and shared with the audience why Musk left OpenAI and that he wanted what he is trying to prevent today.
The article shared by OpenAI is quite long and detailed. Since we don’t want to overwhelm you with these details, we’re sharing the timeline OpenAI shares on this topic, along with the shared screenshots. However, if you would like to view the entire article, you can access the relevant article by clicking here.
- November 2015: OpenAI was founded as a non-profit organization.
- December 2015: OpenAI was announced to the public.
- Early 2017: It has been calculated that the overall development of artificial intelligence will require billions of dollars of investment.
- Summer 2017: OpenAI and Elon Musk agreed that a for-profit structure would be needed to support the mission.
- Fall 2017: Elon Musk has offered to acquire a majority stake and absolute control and become CEO of OpenAI.
- September 2017: Elon Musk, Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc. He founded the company called.
- September 2017: OpenAI rejected Elon Musk’s offer because unilateral control conflicted with the company’s mission.
- January 2018: Elon Musk said that OpenAI will achieve absolute failure if it does not merge with Tesla.
- February 2018: Elon Musk resigned as co-chairman of OpenAI.
- December 2018: “Raise billions of dollars every year or forget (your mission),” Elon Musk told OpenAI.
- March 2019: OpenAI LP was incorporated as a non-profit limited liability company.
- March 2023: Elon Musk founded xAI as a rival to OpenAI.
Follow Webtekno on X and don’t miss the news