{"id":9984,"date":"2025-09-11T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/9984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:25:10","slug":"former-openai-employee-suchir-balaji-was-murdered-alleges-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/9984\/","title":{"rendered":"Former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji was murdered, alleges Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

xAI founder and chief executive Elon Musk made a bold claim about the death of former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji, calling it a murder and not suicide.
The tweet came after OpenAI chief Sam Altman\u2019s interview with American television host Tucker Carlson<\/a> drove significant traction in the online space.
Carlson, also an American conservative political commentator, told Altman that the death of former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji, declared a suicide by authorities, was “definitely murder.” Carlson said the mother of the victim claimed that Balaji was murdered on Altman’s orders.<\/p>\n

Balaji had worked at OpenAI for over four years<\/a> and was instrumental in developing ChatGPT. However, after the release of ChatGPT, he grew concerned. <\/p>\n

In August 2023, Balaji resigned<\/a> from OpenAI and began speaking publicly about his concerns. He accused the company of illegally using copyrighted material to train its generative AI (GenAI) models.<\/p>\n

Altman said he hasn’t spoken to the authorities about their investigations, but he did offer to reach out to the mother, who refused to speak with him.<\/p>\n

Musk vs Altman
In another conversation, Altman hit back at Musk\u2019s remarks<\/a> about OpenAI not being a successful bet.<\/p>\n

Altman said Elon Musk helped found the company but exited later because he said it would not be successful. He added that this is why OpenAI’s progress has made the billionaire “understandably upset.”<\/p>\n

Musk cofounded the ChatGPT maker and was on the board, but he quit in 2018 after disagreements over the company\u2019s direction, opposing plans to shift to a for-profit model.<\/p>\n

Musk then entered the competition with his own AI company, xAI, which developed the AI chatbot Grok to rival ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Not the first time
xAI founder Elon Musk and OpenAI chief Sam Altman have long been exchanging sharp remarks and contrasting views.<\/p>\n

Last month, Sam Altman accused the billionaire<\/a> of using his social media platform X to benefit his own interests.<\/p>\n

The development followed Elon Musk\u2019s claim that Apple is engaging in anti-competitive practices against AI companies.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, Musk alleged that Apple\u2019s actions made it \u201cimpossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store,\u201d calling it \u201can unequivocal antitrust violation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February, the OpenAI CEO took a swipe<\/a> at Musk after the latter offered to purchase the artificial intelligence (AI) company for $97.4 billion, suggesting that the Tesla CEO was acting out of a “position of insecurity.”<\/p>\n

Altman also took to X to reject Musk’s bid — with a humorous comeback: “No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”<\/p>\n

Currently, ChatGPT holds the top position in the App Store’s \u201cTop Free Apps\u201d category for iPhones in the US, while Grok ranks fifth, and Google\u2019s Gemini chatbot is at number 57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"xAI founder and chief executive Elon Musk made a bold claim about the death of former OpenAI employee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,10962,10966,343,344,10963,10967,10959,85,46,10964,10960,10961,10958,125,10965],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-companies-competition","tag-apple-antitrust-claims","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chatgpt-development-history","tag-copyright-issues-in-ai","tag-elon-musk-claims","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-murder-vs-suicide-controversy","tag-openai-controversies","tag-sam-altman-interview","tag-suchir-balaji-murder-allegations","tag-technology","tag-xai-grok-chatbot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}