'Now they will have to use Teams.' Elon Musk adds his two (witty) cents as Satya Nadella hires Sam Altman at Microsoft, after a dramatic weekend

It has been an exciting weekend for all tech enthuisasts as the drama over artificial intelligence's poster boy Sam Altman's sacking at OpenAI played out.

50 hours on, Elon Musk, the man who currently owns X that was formerly known as Twitter, decided to wade into the ongoing drama. The billioanire tycoon, took a swipe at the multiple turns and U-turns that the drama invoked with a "Now they will have to use Teams!" comment on the platform that he owns.




30 minutes after Satya Nadella took to the social media platform on Monday to announce that Altman & Co were being hired by Microsoft, Musk stepped in, and took a dig at the ongoing corporate shenanigans. Over the weekend, it emerged that Altman had been fired by OpenAI’s four-member board in a virtual conference using Google Meet, and not Microsoft Teams, which is the tech major's native chat platform.


The Tesla boss made his comment after social media went into a tizzy on Saturday when it emerged that Microsoft - which invested billions of dollars into OpenAI - was apparently “blindsided” by the announcement of Altman's sacking. Axios reported that the tech company learned about Altman’s departure just minutes before the news was shared in the blog post.

Earlier on Friday, Altman, the erstwhile CEO of OpenAI, was terminated by a board of four people. Reports followed that he would be starting off his own venture. More drama ensued as OpenAI’s staff, who had a very close relationship with Altman, went down the warpath and threatened to quit OpenAI and join Altman’s new venture, even before the venture could take off.

By Monday, of course, all that got sidelined as Nadella himself announced the induction of Altman into Microsoft.