OpenAI's GPT-5 Launch Sparks Rivalry Between Tech Giants

Sam Altman says he doesn't think about Elon Musk that much

Sam Altman, left, and Elon Musk.Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty Images Sam Altman has dismissed longtime rival Elon Musk's warnings that OpenAI is set to dominate Microsoft, after the companies announced that OpenAI's latest AI model will be incorporated into Microsoft products. On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI's GPT-5 service would be launching across platforms including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry -- prompting a response from Musk that "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive." Nadella sought to downplay the issue. "People have been trying for 50 years and that's the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete," he said on X, also expressing excitement for Musk's own Grok 4 chatbot, which is available on Azure on a limited preview. OpenAI CEO Altman shared his own repartee on CNBC's "Squawk Box" Friday, saying, when asked of Musk's input, "You know, I don't think about him that much." He went on to question the meaning of Musk's statements, also noting of the tech billionaire, "I thought he was just, like, tweeting all day [on X] about how much OpenAI sucks, and our model is bad, and, you know, [we're] not gonna be a good company and all that." CNBC has reached out to Musk-owned X for comment. Altman and Musk have frequently exchanged barbs as part of a long-storied feud that dates back to their disagreement over the ultimate mission of OpenAI, which they co-founded in 2015 as a nonprofit AI research lab. OpenAI has since been seeking to convert into a for-profit entity and capitalize on meteoric demand for its viral ChatGPT product, with Microsoft stepping in as a top backer. Musk previously filed -- and has since dropped -- a lawsuit against the company, citing breach of contract. Earlier this year, the Tesla boss also led a consortium that offered to acquire the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion, with Altman declining the proposal with a curt "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want" on social media.

Microsoft rolls out OpenAI's GPT-5 -- and Elon Musk rolls out the commentary

The release of GPT-5 on Thursday gave Microsoft an opportunity to spotlight its exclusive cloud API partnership with OpenAI -- and Elon Musk helped to boost attention, in a roundabout way. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted that GPT-5 was launching across Microsoft platforms including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry. "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive," Musk responded. Nadella took it in stride, and subtly reminded Musk that he's a Microsoft partner, as well, albeit on a much smaller scale, after the two tech leaders announced in May that Microsoft would begin hosting Grok models from Musk's xAI on Azure. "People have been trying for 50 years and that's the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete," Nadella responded. "Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and looking forward to Grok 5!" The GPT-5 release comes at a timely moment for Microsoft, two days after Amazon was able to trumpet the fact that its AWS cloud will be hosting two OpenAI models for the first time, the open-weight gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, thanks to their release under the Apache 2.0 license. All of it comes as Microsoft and OpenAI reportedly renegotiate their partnership and equity terms, a reminder that Redmond's most important AI alliance is still evolving. As for Microsoft's relationship with Musk, it's complicated in a different way. Musk last year added Microsoft as a defendant to his lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the companies formed a de facto AI monopoly. On CNBC's Squawk Box, co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the Nadella-Musk exchange: "What do you think when you read that?" "You know," Altman said, "I don't think about him that much."

Elon Musk Warns Microsoft That Its Partner, OpenAI, Is About to Eat It Alive

After Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X that OpenAI's GPT-5 service is included in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry, competitor Elon Musk wasted no time predicting that "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman brushed off Musk's tweet during an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday with a short: "You know, I don't think about him that much." Altman went on to note that previously, Musk had nothing but criticism for OpenAI. "I thought he was just, like, tweeting all day [on X] about how much OpenAI sucks, and our model is bad, and, you know, [we're] not gonna be a good company and all that," Altman said. Related: Elon Musk Says X Found the Vine Archive, Restoring Access Nadella took a much more playful approach to Musk's dire warning about Microsoft getting eaten alive, posting on X: "People have been trying for 50 years, and that's the fun of it!" This is far from the first time these two tech leaders have clashed. The two cofounded OpenAI in 2015, and Musk left in 2018 after a disagreement over the direction of the company's mission. Musk's offer to acquire control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion was denied by Altman earlier this year, with Altman posting a snarky "No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want" note on social media. Related: Sam Altman Says Elon Musk Is 'Clearly a Bully' Who Likes to Get in Fights with Rivals

Elon Musk vs Satya Nadella: Billionaire mocks Microsoft after GPT-5 launch

The AI race intensifies as OpenAI launches GPT-5, integrated across Microsoft platforms, hailed by Satya Nadella as a major advancement. Elon Musk dismisses it, asserting his Grok 4 surpasses it, sparking a public exchange. Nadella responds with competitive enthusiasm, welcoming Grok 4 on Azure and anticipating future innovations in the ongoing AI quest. The rivalry between tech titans Elon Musk and Satya Nadella just got a fresh spark -- and this time, it's all about AI supremacy. The launch of OpenAI's GPT-5 has set the stage for a public back-and-forth between the Tesla and SpaceX chief and the Microsoft CEO. On one side, Nadella is celebrating a breakthrough he calls "the most capable model yet," while on the other, Musk is confidently declaring that his own AI, Grok 4, leaves it in the dust. It's the kind of high-stakes, high-ego tech drama that the internet lives for. On Thursday, August 7, Microsoft officially rolled out GPT-5 across its major platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry. In his post, Nadella highlighted that GPT-5 is now integrated across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry. He described it as the most advanced model yet from OpenAI, offering significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and conversational abilities, all trained on Azure. He noted that it has been just two and a half years since Sam Altman first showcased GPT-4 at Microsoft's Redmond campus, and since then, progress has accelerated rapidly. Nadella expressed excitement to see how developers, enterprises, and consumers will use this breakthrough. Musk, however, wasn't impressed. Reacting to Nadella's announcement, he posted on X, "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive." He also claimed that Grok 4, the latest model from his AI company xAI, is far superior to GPT-5. Nadella didn't let the jab go unanswered. In a follow-up post, he struck a tone of friendly competitiveness, noting that the quest to advance AI has been ongoing for 50 years and that the real excitement lies in learning, innovating, partnering, and competing every day. He added that he was looking forward to seeing Grok 4 run on Azure and was already eager for the arrival of Grok 5.

GPT-5: Elon Musk claims Grok 4 outperforms OpenAI's newest launch - The Economic Times

ChatGPT-5 is rolling out free to all users of the AI tool, which is used by nearly 700 million people weekly, OpenAI said in a briefing with journalists. Cofounder and chief executive Sam Altman touted this latest iteration as "clearly a model that is generally intelligent.Billionaire Elon Musk took to his social media platform X to attack OpenAI and Microsoft after the launch of ChatGPT-5 on Thursday, claiming that his company xAI's Grok 4 outperforms the much-hyped, newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model. In multiple responses on his X timeline, Musk said Grok 4 was "better than GPT-5 two weeks ago" and that Grok 5 will be "crushingly good". He also replied in agreement to a post by xAI cofounder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, where he said Grok 4 was a much more versatile AI model with a smaller and more dedicated team. "Very proud of us @xai after seeing the GPT5 release. With a much smaller team, we are ahead in many. Grok4 world's first unified model, and crushing GPT5 in benchmarks like ARC-AGI," the post read. ARC-AGI stands for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence. It's a benchmark designed to evaluate an AI's ability to solve abstract visual problems with minimal prior knowledge. Responding to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's post that GPT-5 would be integrated across the company's platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI Foundry, Musk said, "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive". This came after Nadella touted GPT-5 as the "most capable model yet" from OpenAI. Nadella sportingly replied that people had been trying that for 50 years, and "that's the fun of it". "Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and looking forward to Grok 5!" he added. The Tesla CEO supported his claims by sharing user feedback favouring his company's product over OpenAI's latest launch. What is GPT-5? On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5, a new generation of its hallmark ChatGPT AI bot, touting "significant" advancements in AI capabilities. ChatGPT-5 is rolling out free to all users of the AI tool, which is used by nearly 700 million people weekly, OpenAI said in a briefing with journalists. Cofounder and chief executive Sam Altman touted this latest iteration as "clearly a model that is generally intelligent.

'Don't think much about him': OpenAI's Sam Altman plays down Elon Musk's GPT-5 criticism - The Economic Times

Altman described the billionaire Elon Musk as someone who tweets constantly and has been openly critical of OpenAI's products and services.Sam Altman brushed off Elon Musk's criticism of OpenAI's GPT-5, the latest model for its flagship ChatGPT, on Friday. "I don't think about him that much. I don't even know what that means," the OpenAI founder said during a conversation with CNBC. Altman described the billionaire as someone who tweets constantly and has been openly critical of OpenAI's products and services. "He was someone who was just tweeting all day about how much OpenAI sucks and our model is bad and you know, not going to be a good company. So I don't know how you square those things," he said. After Microsoft announced that OpenAI's latest model will be integrated into its products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot, Musk posted on X: "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive." Musk also claimed that Grok 4, the latest model from his AI company xAI, is far superior to GPT-5. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella even welcomed the competition. "People have been trying for 50 years and that's the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete. Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and looking forward to Grok 5!" Microsoft has been a significant investor in OpenAI since its early days, although the two companies are renegotiating their relationship. OpenAI launched the much-awaited GPT-5 on Thursday, calling it the smartest and most capable version of its artificial intelligence models to date. The company says the new model is more accurate, more efficient, and has significantly lower hallucination rates compared to previous versions. GPT-5 is now being gradually rolled out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro users, and Team plans across web, mobile, and desktop platforms. It will soon be available to Enterprise and Education plan users as well. Microsoft has integrated GPT-5 across its major platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry.

Soon after Sam Altman unveils GPT-5, Elon Musk says Grok-5 will be out this year as well

Satya Nadella responded to Musk, embracing competition in the AI space. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has introduced its latest and most capable AI model yet, the GPT-5 globally. While the new model looks promising with free access to all users (but with limits), Elon Musk tried stealing the show by announcing Grok 5. Taking to X, Musk stated that the Grok-5 will be launching by the end of this year with the promise that it will be crushingly good. While all the details about the Grok 5 remains under the wraps, the Tesla CEO also claimed that Grok 4 Heavy was smarter two weeks ago than GPT 5 is now and xAI's latest model is already better. He also attached the benchmark scores in his post like ARC-AGI. "Bottom line though: Grok 4 Heavy was smarter 2 weeks ago than GPT5 is now, and G4H is already a lot better. Let that sink in," he stated. Also read: OpenAI launches GPT-5, its most advanced model yet: What's new, what it can do, and who gets access Musk did not stop there. SpaceX CEO has also said that OpenAI is "going to eat Microsoft alive", warning Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, after the GPT 5 release. This came after Nadella announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry and other platforms will offer GPT 5. In response, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella responded that "People have been trying for 50 years, and that's the fun of it! Each day you learn something new, and innovate, partner, and compete. Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and looking forward to Grok 5," in a post on X. In the meantime, Elon Musk's AI has been in headlines for its Grok Imagine, a video generation tool. It is now available on Android and iOS. Musk also confirmed that the platform has been a hit, as over 44 million images were created by Grok Imagine in a single day.