Elon Musk says OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive

09-Aug-2025

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced the launch of GPT-5 across the company’s major platforms, calling it OpenAI’s “most capable model yet”. 

The AI system, trained on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, will now power Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry. 

Nadella highlighted how GPT-5 brings stronger reasoning, improved coding abilities, and more advanced chat features to consumers, developers, and enterprises alike. Reflecting on the journey since GPT-4 was first introduced in Bing two and a half years ago, he said it was “incredible to see how far we’ve come” and that the pace of AI progress is only accelerating.

However, the announcement sparked a bit of back-and-forth on X. 

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk replied to Nadella’s tweet with a blunt remark: “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive.” Musk’s comment appeared to suggest that Microsoft’s close partnership with OpenAI could eventually work against the tech giant, though it’s worth noting that Microsoft holds significant rights to use and sell OpenAI’s models until 2030, as some users pointed out.