Elon Musk supports Suchir Balaji’s mother in a row over his death: ‘This doesn’t seem like suicide’

“Update on @suchirbalaji. We hired private investigator and did second autopsy to throw light on cause of death. Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police. Suchir’s apartment was ransacked , sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like some one hit him in bathroom based on blood spots,” Ramarao wrote on X.

“It’s a cold blooded mu*d*r declared by authorities as suicide. Lobbying in SF city doesn’t stop us from getting justices. We demand FBi investigation,” she added.

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Update on @suchirbalaji

We hired private investigator and did second autopsy to throw light on cause of death. Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police.

Suchir’s apartment was ransacked , sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like some one hit him…

— Poornima Rao (@RaoPoornima) December 29, 2024

Backing Ramarao, Musk wrote, “This doesn’t seem like a suicide.”

This doesn’t seem like a suicide

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2024

In October, Balaji—in an interview with NYT—alleged that OpenAi uses copyright data. “Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and joined the emerging AI research lab for a summer internship in 2018 while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He later returned to OpenAI as a full-time team member, where one of his early projects, WebGPT, played a key role in the development of ChatGPT.

“Suchir’s contributions to this project were crucial, and its success wouldn’t have been possible without him,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post honouring Balaji.