Photo collage of Sam Altman on the left, OpenAI's logo on a phone in the middle and Elon Musk on the right
Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
  • Sam Altman weighed in on Elon Musk's motivation for suing OpenAI.
  • The OpenAI CEO said he didn't think the lawsuit was about "open-source versus not." 
  • Altman made the comments on Lex Fridman's podcast this week. 

Sam Altman thinks Elon Musk's decision to file a lawsuit against OpenAI is not about whether its technology is open-source.

The OpenAI CEO weighed in on what could have spurred Musk to sue the company in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman.