What Sam Altman and Elon Musk Have Said About Each Other [Video]

Elon Musk and Sam Altman may be pioneers in the same industries, but that doesn’t mean they’re on the same page.

The two tech CEOs have a storied history of interactions, ranging from starting businesses together to complicated personal and legal battles over the future of artificial intelligence.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in December 2015 to develop artificial intelligence that benefits humanity. After meeting in 2010, the pair frequently discussed artificial intelligence, with Altman thinking of the SpaceX founder as a “mega-hero.”

“I thought what Elon was doing was absolutely incredible for the world at a time when most of the world was not thinking very ambitiously. He pushed a lot of people, me included, to think much more ambitiously,” Altman told The New York Times in December.