Walter Isaacson, biographer of Elon Musk, says the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) billionaire has a look he reserves for Sam Altman, and it isn’t pretty.
“I just watched his face as he went into what we sometimes called ‘demon mode’ every time he talked about how he felt betrayed by Sam Altman,” Isaacson told Squawk Box Tuesday.
How The Feud Started
Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015. The premise was simple: build an AI lab that was open source and nonprofit, a direct counterweight to Google’s dominance in the field.
Altman later changed that, converting OpenAI into a for-profit entity. For Musk, who had been among the company’s earliest and most prominent backers, that was the original sin.
The Lawsuit
Musk filed suit against Altman in the U.S. District …
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