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Musk, Altman and the AI feud worth billions of dollars

Elon Musk and Sam Altman on stage
Musk and Altman were co-founders at OpenAI back in 2015. Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images

Is the Musk-Altman rivalry just about brains and innovation, or does it also revolve around the billions of dollars in investment?

Almost a decade ago, Elon Musk and Sam Altman joined hands, with a few others, to launch OpenAI. At the time the artificial intelligence start-up was supposed to be “a non-profit company to save the world from a dystopian future.” Or at least that’s what Altman told Vanity Fair in