OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was seen driving a rare Swedish sports car over the weekend, prompting reactions of envy from many social media users and annoyance from his former friend Elon Musk.
Altman, 39, is a dedicated car enthusiast with a collection that includes a McLaren and a Koenigsegg Regera. During a business trip to Dubai in April, he and his husband, engineer Oliver Mulherin, drove sports cars around a race track, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The Koenigsegg Regera caught attention on social media recently. Car enthusiast Joseph Velyan first shared a video of the luxury vehicle in April after spotting it on the streets of Napa. “I’ve been into cars almost my whole life, and seeing a Koenigsegg was definitely a dream of mine — especially in public,” Velyan told Business Insider. “I go to car events and see some pretty rare cars often, but this is for sure the rarest one I’ve seen, and it caught my eye right away.”
Velyan initially posted the footage to his Instagram and TikTok accounts in April but reuploaded the videos after identifying Altman as the driver. The video also appeared on X, previously known as Twitter.
“CEO @OpenAI driving one of the most expensive cars,” the Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley account posted. “How did OpenAI become a for-profit business when it was a nonprofit?”
Shortly afterward, Musk responded, “great question.” Earlier this year, Musk sued OpenAI, accusing Altman of shifting the company’s mission from its original nonprofit goals to a pursuit of profits. OpenAI dismissed Musk’s complaints as “frivolous.”