Tesla CEO and one of OpenAI’s most public and high-profile critics, Elon Musk has a lot to say about the Suchir Balaji case. Musk has dropped a bombshell in the Suchir Balaji death case, saying the OpenAI researcher and whistleblower — who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in December 2024 — “was murdered,” Musk’s claim came after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a television interview, called it a “suicide.”

Altman was speaking to former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, who asked, “Do you think he committed suicide?”

To this Altman replied, “I really do. He was like a friend of mine. This is like a guy that, not a close friend, but this is someone that worked at OpenAI for a very long time. I was really shaken by this tragedy. I spent a lot of time trying to, you know, read everything I could as I’m sure you and others did too about what happened. It looks like a suicide to me.”

Carlson then asked: “You had complaints from one programmer who said you guys were basically stealing people’s stuff and not paying them, and then he wound up murdered. What was that?”

Altman replied, “Also a great tragedy. He committed suicide.”

Musk hit back at Altman’s remarks, writing on X, “He was murdered.”

Suchir Balaji was a 26-year-old artificial intelligence researcher who worked at OpenAI, one of the leading AI research organizations. He contributed significantly to the development of advanced AI models such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Balaji graduated from the University of California,...

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