OpenAI published more emails from Elon Musk if that’s something you want to read

Open AI in the form of a long timeline of emails, texts, and legal filings, illustrating that preventing OpenAI from becoming a for-profit company goes against what it wanted in 2017. Essentially, OpenAI is providing even more evidence from the fact that his former co-founder wanted the AI ​​startup to become a for-profit company and make him CEO.

You should read the full blog to get all the details (and get an idea of ​​how billionaires send emails), but the gist is that in 2017, Musk and OpenAI reached an agreement that the then-nonprofit needed to become in a for-profit organization. to “advance their mission” and apparently capitalize on the public interest gained from their in one-on-one matches. According to OpenAI, Musk proposed a new board structure in which he would “unequivocally have initial control of the company,” which OpenAI opposed. That led to disagreements between Musk and OpenAI’s leadership, and he eventually left the nonprofit’s board of directors in 2018. Musk’s AI startup that is a direct competitor to OpenAI, was launched in 2023.

It’s pretty clear what OpenAI is trying to do here. Musk for the first time in March 2024 over the company’s dealings with Microsoft and the belief that they violated its nonprofit status. He not long after with emails suggesting Musk wanted OpenAI to merge with Tesla or make him CEO. OpenAI’s new blog expands on all those details with new material and seems set to achieve a similar effect.