Elon Musk breaks silence on OpenAI cutting 3-year-old deal with Cursor over him
OpenAI is ending its partnership with the coding tool Cursor, which was recently acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX. Musk responded by criticizing OpenAI leadership, escalating his ongoing public feud with the company.
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This move highlights the deepening conflict between Musk's AI initiatives and OpenAI, impacting the tools available to developers.
Elon Musk has responded after OpenAI said it is ending its partnership with Cursor, a coding tool recently acquired by Musk's SpaceX. The move ends a partnership that had been in place for around three years and adds a new chapter to the long-running dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In an X (formerly Twitter) post, Musk appeared unfazed by the decision, saying he “couldn’t care less” and launching a fresh attack on Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, calling them untrustworthy. “I couldn’t care less. Scam Altman and Greg Stockman are utterly untrustworthy assholes who stole an open source nonprofit,” Musk wrote in the post.Cursor was founded in 2022. It was recently acquired by Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX.
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