Just when you thought Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk could never find common ground comes a new incident that proves otherwise.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently made an appearance during an interview where he had a lot to say about OpenAI. This includes how he agreed with Musk about the company’s name being an absolute misfit or misnomer.
However, Zuckerberg was all praise for the firm’s CEO, detailing more about how Sam Altman deserved so much more credit on how the firm is run, including the great amount of scrutiny it’s put under.
For those who might not be aware, Musk has always been a fierce critic of Altman’s company, especially when it came down to its name which Zuckerberg agrees is quite ironic.
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Both Musk and Zuckerberg have been rumored to have a cage fight that the rest of the world started to gain excitement about. Unfortunately, that never happened but we’re happy that they may be agreeing on something for once.
Speaking during the interview, the Meta CEO explained how it does not make sense for a company to be called ‘open’ when it makes use of closed AI models and systems. While he made it very clear that the idea wasn’t bad, it’s certainly hilarious.
Musk co-founded the AI giant with Altman and several others in the year 2015 but opted to leave his leading position of being a board director in 2018. But ever since his takeoff, his criticism against the firm keeps increasing and today, it wouldn’t be wrong to call him the AI giant’s biggest and most vocal critic.
At the start of this year, he mentioned through the X app how the firm was originally designed with the idea of being open-sourced and serving as a nonprofit entity that would take on search engine giant Google. But with time, it transformed into a closed source firm whose eyes were more on profits, thanks to a mega partnership with software giant Microsoft. And Musk keeps on saying that he was never in favor of that.
Today, Microsoft’s mega collaborations with Altman’s firm are worth a startling $13B, and that entails combining AI tech into Bing search, its Azure cloud platform, and so much more.
Musk even went as far as rolling out a lawsuit against OpenAI regarding the deal but in June, he silently dropped that legal case.
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg seems to be a huge fan of the CEO, calling his leadership admirable, considering how much criticism it faces daily.
According to the Meta CEO, the pressure that a leader must deal with is intense and that’s when Zuckerberg compared Altman’s handling of the workings as impressive and perhaps better than what he could ever dream of. He further spoke about how Altman deserves much more credit than what he gets. His grace and dignity and efforts are commendable, he concluded.
Who better than Zuckerberg to speak about being scrutinized in the public eye? Remember, the Facebook head has been slammed plenty of times during the firm’s two-decade-long tenure. This includes plenty of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica which had the company fighting a whopping $5B fine from the FTC for privacy breach. And if that’s not enough, let’s not forget the shocking findings unraveled by top whistleblower Frances Haugen. The latter testified in front of the American Congress about what the company has been up to and to combat all of that is certainly a major ordeal.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently made an appearance during an interview where he had a lot to say about OpenAI. This includes how he agreed with Musk about the company’s name being an absolute misfit or misnomer.
However, Zuckerberg was all praise for the firm’s CEO, detailing more about how Sam Altman deserved so much more credit on how the firm is run, including the great amount of scrutiny it’s put under.
For those who might not be aware, Musk has always been a fierce critic of Altman’s company, especially when it came down to its name which Zuckerberg agrees is quite ironic.
Both Musk and Zuckerberg have been rumored to have a cage fight that the rest of the world started to gain excitement about. Unfortunately, that never happened but we’re happy that they may be agreeing on something for once.
Speaking during the interview, the Meta CEO explained how it does not make sense for a company to be called ‘open’ when it makes use of closed AI models and systems. While he made it very clear that the idea wasn’t bad, it’s certainly hilarious.
Musk co-founded the AI giant with Altman and several others in the year 2015 but opted to leave his leading position of being a board director in 2018. But ever since his takeoff, his criticism against the firm keeps increasing and today, it wouldn’t be wrong to call him the AI giant’s biggest and most vocal critic.
At the start of this year, he mentioned through the X app how the firm was originally designed with the idea of being open-sourced and serving as a nonprofit entity that would take on search engine giant Google. But with time, it transformed into a closed source firm whose eyes were more on profits, thanks to a mega partnership with software giant Microsoft. And Musk keeps on saying that he was never in favor of that.
Today, Microsoft’s mega collaborations with Altman’s firm are worth a startling $13B, and that entails combining AI tech into Bing search, its Azure cloud platform, and so much more.
Musk even went as far as rolling out a lawsuit against OpenAI regarding the deal but in June, he silently dropped that legal case.
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg seems to be a huge fan of the CEO, calling his leadership admirable, considering how much criticism it faces daily.
According to the Meta CEO, the pressure that a leader must deal with is intense and that’s when Zuckerberg compared Altman’s handling of the workings as impressive and perhaps better than what he could ever dream of. He further spoke about how Altman deserves much more credit than what he gets. His grace and dignity and efforts are commendable, he concluded.
Who better than Zuckerberg to speak about being scrutinized in the public eye? Remember, the Facebook head has been slammed plenty of times during the firm’s two-decade-long tenure. This includes plenty of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica which had the company fighting a whopping $5B fine from the FTC for privacy breach. And if that’s not enough, let’s not forget the shocking findings unraveled by top whistleblower Frances Haugen. The latter testified in front of the American Congress about what the company has been up to and to combat all of that is certainly a major ordeal.
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