Elon Musk reminds everyone he named OpenAI ‘with a lot of good intentions’

Elon Musk said that he named OpenAI as he jabbed at the direction Sam Altman’s company has taken since then. Talking at Cannes Lions, Elon Musk discussed technical innovation, AI and the future of tech. The Tesla boss had cofounded OpenAI in 2015 but left the company three years later. He even filed a lawsuit against the company, which he has recently dropped, accusing OpenAI of betraying the firm’s founding principles.On OpenAI, Elon Musk said he had started the company to compete with Google. “It was very much a unipolar world where Google was completely dominant in AI,” he said. The company was “formed with a lot of good intentions. The ‘open’ in OpenAI was meant to stand for ‘open source,’” he said.