OpenAI CEO Sam Altman subtly criticized Elon Musk's AI venture, contrasting OpenAI's focus on scientific breakthroughs with Musk's recent release of 'Ani,' a controversial NSFW anime character for his xAI platform.

In March 2026, a jury will hear OpenAI's claims of a "years-long harassment campaign" by Musk via social media, press, and legal moves.

During a recent online clash with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, Elon Musk experienced an unexpected twist when his own AI chatbot, Grok, publicly sided with Altman. The confrontation began after Musk accused Apple of unfairly promoting OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the App Store.

Whenever a user hit “share” on a Grok conversation, the URL it generated was also searchable on Google, Forbes reported. And xAI isn’t the only company to have reckoned with this — OpenAI recently said it would discontinue its own such feature.