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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX chief Elon Musk are once again quarrelling on social media after the launch of the latest ChatGPT model. The latest standoff came shortly after OpenAI released its GPT-5.6 series of AI models, which it claims are not its most advanced to date but perhaps among the best in the industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Altman, while taking a dig at Musk on X (formerly Twitter), said that while there are many benchmarks to prove GPT-5.6 <\/a>Sol is currently the best model out there, the most reliable indicator is perhaps that Musk is attacking him once again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThere are a lot of benchmarks that suggest 5.6 Sol is the best model in the world right now, but the most reliable way to tell is that Elon is obsessed with me again,\u201d Altman wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Notably, shortly after the GPT-5.6 launch, Musk once again began reposting memes targeting Altman, calling him “Scam Altman”. The SpaceX<\/a> chief also began sharing material on his social media accounts portraying Grok 4.5 as one of the leading AI models in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cHomeboy you’re the one selling public market investors on short-term space datacenters,\u201d Altman wrote in reply to one of Musk’s posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Altman was taking a jab at SpaceX’s plans to launch as many as one million AI datacentres in space, which was a major part of the company’s pitch to investors ahead of its IPO last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Musk, however, did not take the jab lying down and said that SpaceX will start flying them next year, while repeating his claim that Altman<\/a> stole a charity, referring to OpenAI’s non-profit arm. The billionaire also claimed that Altman stole Apple’s technology, hinting at the fresh lawsuit filed by the iPhone maker this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves. After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple\u2019s phone technology! Wow. What do you plan for an encore? That\u2019s tough to beat,\u201d wrote Musk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the lawsuit filed this week, Apple accused the ChatGPT<\/a> maker of stealing trade secrets to support its efforts to develop AI hardware. The lawsuit, filed in a California federal court, alleges that OpenAI and two former Apple employees engaged in a coordinated effort to misappropriate confidential information related to Apple’s hardware development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nApple files lawsuit against OpenAI<\/h2>\n