When the Elon Musk and Donald Trump partnership on the election path developed in more detail last year, the main question that spectators asked: How long will it take? The second was likely: how big will the fallout be?
With President Trump, there is now nowhere in the Oval Office and Muschus in the White House to A Turbulent a few months The duo seems to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) and seems to be in something A cooling time.
It came after the Tesla CEO Lambasted the decision -making of the White House Especially about Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, which he claimed, all the budget efficiency achieved by Musiness and would immerse the nation into further debts.
Musk also claimed that Trump had been in the Epstein files – a statement that he has decreased since then. The president said he was “very disappointed” in the richest man in the world and threatened to withdraw state subsidies from Musk’s private efforts.
If there was a person who saw the Fallout, it was open boss Sam Altman.
“Elon tinkers with everyone”, he told reporters yesterdayAnd added: “He does that.”
When asked how the type of his relationship stands with that Spaceex Founder, Altman, replied: “How do you think?”
Altman knows first -hand how it is to work with Musk and then watch the bridges burn.
In 2015, the duo was some of the founding partners of Openai.
In the following years the relationship between Musk and Altman was missing, with Musk left in 2018 According to reports to take over the management of the company, What failed.
In 2023 Musk announced the start of Xai, who then released his chat bot Grok for the Chatgpt from Openaai.
By 2024, Openai and Musk were locked up in a legal dispute, and Musk later started an offer to acquire Openaai, to which Altman jokingly reacted that he would buy X folders as Twitter.
Musk, who also founded the brain implant company Neuralink, was still angry when Altman and Openai were heavily involved in the introduction of the 500 billion dollar start initiative of the White House, a large-scale project to set up the AI infrastructure in the USA
Representatives of Musk did not react Fortune’s Request for comment.
Altman faces all fronts with challengers
But Musk is not the only Tech -Titan -Adtan that is currently pushing.
In the past few weeks, Openai has I lost some of his top talents To Mark Zuckerberg’s Super Intelligence Research Lab in MetaWith Altman claimed that some employees had been offered Signing bonuses of up to 100 million US dollars.
When Altman was asked how he felt about the talent war with a great technical rival, he felt “in order” yesterday and added: “I mean obviously, we have an incredibly talented team and I think they really love what they do. Obviously, some people will go different places – there is a lot of excitement, I think they could say in the industry.”
Altman added that he had not talked to Zuckerberg about poaching of talents, but would see him at Sun Valley Conference this week.
“Sooner or later”
The news of Musk and Trump’s Almighty failure was not new to these who worked closely with the presidenteither.
Wilbur Ross was Minister of Commerce under the first Trump government and spoke to Assets Exclusive in the last month.
He said that the conflict between the richest man in the world and the most powerful in the world is not particularly surprising and explained: “Both are very powerful personalities and both have individual strength, in the case of Muschus he has a bullet pulpit through his social media, and he has the economic power that he has the political power and power of the president of the president of the chair.
“In view of the fact that there were so powerful personalities and that everyone has their almost separate power base (it is) not surprising that sooner or later it will be a bit.”
Musk had previously been pushed into topics such as tariffs with members of the Trump team, spoke out against Trump 2.0 headlines and lambished his architects such as consultants Peter Navarro.
Secretary Ross added that, despite such gap, Trump respected part of working with Musk with Doge: “I think Trump made it clear that he was doing what Doge achieved and was indeed continued with many nutmeg people in order to further implement those in the entire administration.
Between the interview by secretary Ross Assets And the time of writing, Musk has also announced his intention to start a new political party Called the America Party and offers an alternative to Republicans and Democrats.
Trump has described this idea as “ridiculous”, To say that it will contribute to political “confusion”, which may indicate that a short -term spit between the couple can penetrate a long -term feud.
