⚡️💬 WATCH - Elon Musk: The reason I wanted to create OpenAI was to serve as a counterweight to Google... They had all the AI, essentially." The tension was real: Elon recounts a heated exchange with Larry Page over AI safety, where Page allegedly called him a "specie-ist." Musk's retort: "Larry, what side are you on? We need to make sure that the AI doesn't destroy all the humans."

This moment highlights his founding concern that a monopolistic power was not taking existential AI risks seriously.