Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever should switch to Tesla or his artificial intelligence startup xAI. Last month, Sutskwo joined other OpenAI board members in firing CEO Sam Altman for vague reasons. But this "coup" only lasted five days. With the help of Microsoft and other investors, OpenAI quickly restored Altman to his position and then began to reorganize the board of directors.

  

Altman singled out Sutskvo in a statement about his return, writing, "I bear him no ill will. While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship."

But reports emerged on Friday that Suzkovo’s fate was in uncertainty and that he had recently become “invisible” at OpenAI. When an X user shared the post and wrote that Sutskwo should join Tesla, Musk responded: "Or xAI."

. When OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015, Musk helped launch, fund and attract key talent to OpenAI, and he also personally persuaded Suzkovo, who had worked at Google, to join OpenAI.

Musk, a former OpenAI board member, left the company in 2018 after a power struggle. Soon after, OpenAI switched to a capped profit model and began accepting huge investments from Microsoft due to its need for capital and computing resources.

Musk founded xAI in March this year and released its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok last month to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT.

After the OpenAI board fired Altman last month, Musk wrote: "Given the risks and power of advanced artificial intelligence, the public deserves to know why the board felt they had to take such drastic action."

But Musk also emphasized many times that Suzkovo participated in the firing of Altman. "I think we should be worried about that because I think Elijah actually has a very strong moral compass and he really thinks hard about why it's right," he said at a recent event. "If Elijah feels strongly about firing Sam, well, I think the world should know what that reason is."

If Sutskwo moves to xAI or Tesla, or any other company, it would be a major development in the war for AI talent. As Musk said in a live webcast, recruiting Sutskwo in 2015 "was really the key to OpenAI's success."