<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI wasn’t the charity he claims was stolen from him (we all knew <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2048801964457140540" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">that was coming</a>). It was about an old friend.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Musk testified that one of his core motivations for co-founding OpenAI was a falling-out with Google’s Larry Page over AI safety — specifically, a conversation in which Musk raised the prospect of AI wiping out humanity and Page shrugged it off as “fine,” so long as AI itself survived. Page called Musk a “speciest” for being “pro human.” Musk called the attitude “insane.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That’s mostly notable given how close the two once were. Fortune included them on its 2016 list of secretly best-friend business leaders; Musk was so comfortable with Page that he regularly crashed at his Palo Alto home. Page once told Charlie Rose that he’d rather <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-elon-musk-2014-3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">give his money to Musk</a> than to charity.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The friendship didn’t survive OpenAI. When Musk recruited Google AI star Ilya Sutskever to help launch the company in 2015, Page felt personally betrayed and cut off contact.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s a story Musk has told before — including to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk — but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath. Page hasn’t commented, and it’s worth remembering everything that Musk said was in service of a lawsuit. Still, as recently as 2023 he told tech podcaster Lex Fridman he wanted to patch things up: “We were friends for a very long time.”</p>
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