Billionaires Elon Musk, Vinod Khosla engage in public spat as OpenAI dragged to court

Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla took a dig at Elon Musk's decision to sue OpenAI, calling it "a case of sour grapes". Mr Khosla, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, suggested the Tesla billionaire did not get into the AI game early enough. Notably, Elon Musk was OpenAI's largest donor when it was still a non-profit while Mr Khosla was the first venture capitalist to invest in OpenAI's ChatGPT when the company switched from a non-profit to a private firm in 2019.

In a tweet, he wrote, ''With @elonmusk feels like a bit of sour grapes in suing @OpenAI for not getting in early enough, not staying committed, and now a rival effort. Like they say if you can't innovate, litigate and that's what we have here. Elon of old would be building with us to hit the same goal.''

When many pointed out that Musk was one of the earliest investors in OpenAI, Mr Khosla clarified saying, ''Supply chain error on wording. @elonmusk got in early and bailed early when it seemed the going got tough and keeping the mission required real scale money to be able to have any benefit to society.''