Elon Musk takes aim at Sam Altman after 3 OpenAI execs leave in one day

Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Sam Altman, comparing the OpenAI CEO to a notoriously cunning TV show character, after three top executives at the company resigned in one day. 
In an X post, Musk wrote “Sam Altman is Little Finger,” referring to Petyr Baelish in the TV show “Game of Thrones,” a character known for being a skilled manipulator. 
The comments were written in response to another user who shared a series of photos showing Sam Altman with four former executives at OpenAI.  
It came after OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati announced on Wednesday that she was leaving the company.
“I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” she said.
Hours later, Altman said the company’s Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew and another research leader, Barret Zoph, were also departing. 
They are the latest high-profile departures from the ChatGPT maker. 
In August, president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, said he was “taking a sabbatical,” while another co-founder, John Schulman, left for rival Anthropic. 
Another co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, resigned in May and started his own AI company. Altman praised Murati on Wednesday and said leadership changes were normal for a new company.
“I obviously won’t pretend it’s natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company,” Altman said in a post on X. 
On Thursday, reports emerged that OpenAI was moving away from its non-profit roots and looking to fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.
The company’s board was considering a decision that would change it into a public benefit corporation, The Associated Press reported. 
A public benefit corporation is a type of corporate entity that is supposed to help society as well as turn a profit. 
The ChatGPT maker already has a for-profit division which is controlled by a nonprofit board of directors whose mission is to help humanity. 
On Thursday, Altman confirmed that the company was thinking about restructuring. But he denied it was linked to the resignation of key executives, saying they were “just about people being ready for new chapters of their lives.” 
Bloomberg reported that OpenAI discussed giving Altman a seven percent equity stake in the company. 
The company was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit with a mission to build AI to help humanity. 
Musk, who was one of the OpenAI’s founders, sued the company in August, claiming that it betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits.
The Tesla CEO dropped a similar lawsuit against OpenAI without explanation in June.
In that lawsuit, Musk alleged that by embracing a close relationship with Microsoft, OpenAI and its top executives were “perverting” the company’s mission.