Elon Musk Warns: OpenAI Will ‘Eat Microsoft Alive’

After Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X that OpenAI’s GPT-5 service is included in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry, competitor Elon Musk wasted no time predicting that “OpenAI goes to eat Microsoft alive.”

OpenAI goes to eat Microsoft alive

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Musk’s tweet throughout an look on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday with a brief: “You recognize, I do not take into consideration him that a lot.”

Altman went on to notice that beforehand, Musk had nothing however criticism for OpenAI.

“I believed he was simply, like, tweeting all day [on X] about how a lot OpenAI sucks, and our mannequin is unhealthy, and, you recognize, [we’re] not gonna be a very good firm and all that,” Altman mentioned.

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Nadella took a way more playful strategy to Musk’s dire warning about Microsoft getting eaten alive, posting on X: “Individuals have been making an attempt for 50 years, and that is the enjoyable of it!”

Individuals have been making an attempt for 50 years and that is the enjoyable of it! Every day you be taught one thing new, and innovate, companion, and compete. Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and searching ahead to Grok 5!

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) August 7, 2025

That is removed from the primary time these two tech leaders have clashed. The 2 cofounded OpenAI in 2015, and Musk left in 2018 after a disagreement over the route of the corporate’s mission.

Musk’s offer to acquire control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion was denied by Altman earlier this 12 months, with Altman posting a snarky “No thanks, however we’ll purchase Twitter for $9.74 billion if you would like” word on social media.

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