Oct 30, 2025, 2:37 AM GMT Share this: OpenAI founder Sam Altman hit back at his former collaborator, Elon Musk, in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, just a month before the company completed a billion-dollar restructuring process. The tech leader started the innovative company back in 2015, alongside Elon and a handful of investors, with the clear goal of advancing "digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." OpenAI has now completed its restructure with the help of Microsoft, which will see the company move away from its nonprofit roots towards a more public market presence, making it more susceptible to the control of investors. OpenAI is now worth $500 billion, making it the most valuable private company in the world. Elon initially invested in OpenAI in 2015, before leaving the company in 2018 and going on to create a competitor, xAI, which he launched in 2023. "For a long time, I looked up to him as an incredible hero, a great jewel for humanity. I have different feelings now," Sam told Tucker in the interview. "There are things about him that are incredible, and I'm grateful for a lot of things he's done. There's a lot of things about him that I think are traits I don't admire," he said, adding that Elon left the company because he didn't believe it was on a "trajectory to be successful". You may also like