The conflict arose from Apple’s prosecution of OpenAI’s alleged theft of business secrets to develop hardware equipment, which was followed by a number of attacks on Sam Ottman on social platform X, calling him “Scam Altman” and accusing him of raising fraud to a “new level”。
In response to Mask’s accusations, Sam Ottman subsequently issued a counter-argument that he was the one who sold short-term space data centres to open-market investors. Sam Ottman refers to the idea of SpaceX using Starlink and Starship to deploy orbital data centres。
In response, Mask stated that SpaceX would begin the mission next year and mocked Sam Ottman by insinuating legal disputes by saying, "If your parole officer approves, perhaps you can look." Mask further accused Sam Ottmann of stealing the phone technology of Apple after stealing the source AI charity。