‘I Don’t Think About Him’: Altman Gives Musk the ‘Don Draper’ Treatment
UNITED STATES, AUG 8 – Elon Musk warns OpenAI will surpass Microsoft despite being its major investor as GPT-5 launches, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls the AI a transformative step forward.
- On August 7, 2025, Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft, revealed that OpenAI’s GPT-5 has been integrated into various Microsoft services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot.
- OpenAI was established in 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman as a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the safety of advanced AI, but it later transitioned into a profit-driven company supported by Microsoft in response to increasing competition in the AI industry.
- Elon Musk publicly warned that 'OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive' on the day of GPT-5’s rollout, while Altman dismissed Musk’s critiques and responded on social media with an offer to buy Twitter for $9.74 billion.
- GPT-5, developed on Azure, offers significant improvements in problem-solving, programming abilities, and conversational skills; Cursor AI praised it as the smartest coding model their team has evaluated and has made its integration available at no cost.
- The ongoing feud between Altman and Musk highlights differing views on AI’s direction, but Altman remains focused on progress while Microsoft integrates OpenAI technology widely, signaling intensified AI sector competition.
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