Tech Desk 
Aug 08, 2025
As OpenAI has rolled out GPT-5 in its latest breakthrough to dominate the realm of AI, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, stating: “OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive.”
Musk's quirky comment was made the same day OpenAI debuted the super-charged version of ChatGPT, making it available for free to all users.
It's worth mentioning that Microsoft, being a major investor and strategic partner of OpenAI, made a high-profile announcement regarding the release of GPT-5.
GPT-5 has also been incorporated into Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft's multiple other product lineups.
Nadella hailed GPT-5 as “the most capable model yet” from OpenAI, achieving the utmost advancements in reasoning, coding, and conversational AI.
“The pace of progress is only accelerating,” Nadella said while recalling that he launched GPT-4 for Bing with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in early 2023. “I can’t wait to see what developers, enterprises, and consumers will do with this latest breakthrough.”
Irrespective of a longstanding and unwavering alliance between OpenAI and Microsoft, Musk didn't spare a moment taking a jibe, which is being viewed as a viable response being a backer of his own GPT-rival AI platform Grok.
Musk also priased the latest GPT model, claiming Grok 4 Heavy is “the most powerful AI,” and suggested that Microsoft is on the verge of being overshadowed by its own AI partner.
Maintaining good humour in response, Nadella stated: “People have been trying for 50 years… partner and compete. Excited for Grok 4 on Azure and looking forward to Grok 5!”
With the controversy set apart, GPT-5 seems to have been well received, as Cursor AI has also announced GPT-5 integration, calling it “the most intelligent coding model” tested.
