OpenAI Pitches Its Usefulness to Trump Amid Musk Rivalry

PYMNTS.com December 15, 2024

There’s a new variable in the Sam Altman/Elon Musk rivalry: President-elect Donald Trump.

As the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Dec. 15), executives at Altman’s OpenAI have been preparing to deal with the next administration, though that process has been made more complicated by Musk’s recent closeness to Trump.

According to the report, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm is among Musk’s rivals trying to determine how the Tesla/X/SpaceA/xAI head might use his new position.

“I believe pretty strongly that Elon will do the right thing and that it would be profoundly un-American to use political power, to the degree that Elon has it, to hurt your competitors and advantage your own businesses,” Altman said during an interview during a New...

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