Elon Musk sarcastically criticized OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's view when he posted a meme implying that everyone has the right to own a memory chip.

On November 2, Musk posted on

The image Musk released is said to be in response to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's comments on October 30. At that time, ChatGPT boss said that it was "bad" that users wanted AI to reason locally on the device, and should instead save RAM for the data center.

Besides the above meme, Musk also sarcastically criticized Altman's views in some other comments. For example, he posted the "laughing until tears" emoji with another meme that read: "Tell Sam Altman that I use 64 GB of RAM to play Roller Coaster Tycoon. I want him to know it's me", referring to the game Roller Coaster Tycoon, which does not require a powerful device.

As one account wrote: "Altman said it's 'pretty bad' for people to own RAM. He's an idiot." Musk commented: "Really?".

Altman did not respond to Musk's comments.

Musk and Altman once had a close relationship. According to Vanity Fair, many years ago when he was president of startup incubator Y Combinator, Altman met Musk, and visited the SpaceX rocket factory.

However, by 2017, the relationship began to fall apart. According to several court emails obtained by Business Insider, Musk asked for control of OpenAI and to become CEO. Altman disagreed and convinced the other two co-founders, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, to support him. By 2018, Musk left the company because there was no longer a common voice.

In the following years, OpenAI focused on research, before causing a global sensation with ChatGPT at the end of 2022. Musk began to publicly criticize the old company, and founded xAI in 2023, (now merged with SpaceX and renamed SpaceXAI. Since then, many wars of words between Musk and Altman broke out on social networks.

Last year, Musk sued OpenAI and Altman for "deviating from their original non-profit mission", demanding $134 billion in compensation but lost. In July, the two continued to attack each other on social networks after Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly "stealing business secrets".

According to Gadgets Now, Musk's new comment is on the side of users in the context of RAM prices skyrocketing due to the AI ​​data center fever. However, the American billionaire is also running one of the most RAM-consuming factories on the planet: the Colossus 2 center in Memphis. In September, he said it contained more than 550,000 AI chips, including 110,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs and 440,000 GB300 GPUs. The number of chips is estimated at 147 petabytes, equivalent to the capacity of about 9 million laptops with 16 GB RAM.

In addition to Colossus 2, Musk also operates the older Colossus 1 factory that has about 230,000 Nvidia H100, H200 and GB200 GPUs, primarily for partner Anthropic that operates Claude.

Bao Lam summary

• Sam Altman: 'It's too bad that RAM is in the user's machine'
• Elon Musk has a 'war of words' with Sam Altman again
• Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman
• 'Billionaire vs billionaire' trial between Musk and Altman