{"id":2869,"date":"2026-05-12T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/sam-altman-says-elon-musks-mind-games-were-damaging-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:34:09","slug":"sam-altman-says-elon-musks-mind-games-were-damaging-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/sam-altman-says-elon-musks-mind-games-were-damaging-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman says Elon Musk\u2019s mind games were damaging OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did \u00ab\u00a0huge damage\u00a0\u00bb to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI<\/a>, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank researchers by their accomplishments and \u00ab\u00a0take a chainsaw through a bunch.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Altman conceded that this was the management style the Tesla CEO was known for<\/a>, but that it was incompatible with his startup. \u00ab\u00a0I don’t think Mr. Musk understood how to run a good research lab,\u00a0\u00bb Altman testified when his lawyer, William Savitt, asked about the impact of Musk’s departure from OpenAI on morale. \u00ab\u00a0For a \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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