“They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time.” So spake Elon Musk yesterday, as war broke out between the poly-CEO and Microsoft.
This has been brewing for a while. Microsoft is in a tight partnership with OpenAI, which Musk cofounded and (according to a recent Semafor report) unsuccessfully tried to take over; when rebuffed, he reportedly stomped off with his funding, at which point Microsoft stepped in. Now Musk is working on his own chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and OpenAI is using Microsoft’s cash to invest in robots that will compete with Tesla’s promised Optimus. Everyone is in everyone’s face.
