Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, August 20th. Today on Forbes, Sam Altman despises Elon Musk.

Now he is going after his companies. Over the last year, the feud between Silicon Valley

heavyweights Sam Altman and Elon Musk has devolved into personal attacks, social media swipes, and lawsuits.

Musk calls his foe scam Altman and Swinley Sam.

Altman has said that Musk, quote, can't be a happy person, and that his, quote, whole life is from a position of insecurity.

Just this past week, after Musk announced he plans to sue Apple

for allegedly promoting Altman's OpenAI

over his own startup, XAI,

Altman called out Musk for manipulating X to, quote,

benefit himself and his own companies.

Musk responded by calling Altman a liar.

The two men famously co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015, before Musk left the organization's board three years later,

following a failed power grab. After OpenAI released ChatGPT to public acclaim in late 2022,

Musk founded XAI in March 23 and promoted it as the so-called anti-woke alternative.

Last year, Musk sued Altman to stop him from turning OpenAI into a for-profit entity.

Altman countersued, claiming Musk has worked, quote, non-stop to torpedo OpenAI.

But the rivalry between OpenAI and X-AI is now just one front in the larger war between

Altman and Musk.

Altman has been making moves, both through OpenAI and with his own expansive investment portfolio

to develop products and technologies that targets several of Musk's businesses.

Altman is backing a new brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs, which will directly

compete with Musk's own brain-computer interface outfit, Neurlink. This, according to reports from the Financial Times.

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