{"id":210571,"date":"2024-03-06T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/openai-says-elon-musk-backed-for-profit-plans-and-that-it-has-emails-proving-it\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:11","slug":"openai-says-elon-musk-backed-for-profit-plans-and-that-it-has-emails-proving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/openai-says-elon-musk-backed-for-profit-plans-and-that-it-has-emails-proving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI says Elon Musk backed for-profit plans, and that it has emails proving it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OpenAI shot back at Elon Musk late Tuesday, refuting claims Musk made in a lawsuit filed last week, and publishing emails from Musk that appeared to show he had supported the company\u2019s for-profit business plans.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, Musk filed a lawsuit<\/a> in San Francisco accusing OpenAI executives of abandoning their founding goals for developing artificial general intelligence in favor of enriching themselves and essentially selling out to Microsoft Corp.
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\u201cWe\u2019re sad that it\u2019s come to this with someone whom we\u2019ve deeply admired \u2014 someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI\u2019s mission without him,\u201d OpenAI executives, including co-founder Sam Altman, said in a blog post Tuesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also read:<\/strong> Opinion:\u00a0Why is Elon Musk suing Open AI and Sam Altman? In a word: Microsoft.<\/a><\/p>\n

OpenAI included reproductions of a number of what appeared to be internal emails between OpenAI executives and Musk, dated between 2015 and 2018, in which the Tesla Inc.
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In his lawsuit, Musk claimed he and Altman had agreed that OpenAI would remain open-source and publicly available. But Musk appeared to go along with OpenAI\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it\u2019s totally OK to not share the science,\u201d co-founder Ilya Sutskever wrote Musk in a 2016 email.<\/p>\n

\u201cYup,\u201d Musk replied, according to OpenAI.<\/p>\n

In time, Musk\u2019s message became more my-way-or-the-highway, OpenAI said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity,\u201d OpenAI said in its blog post. \u201cElon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2018, Musk urged a massive fundraising effort, one of the emails showed.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven raising several hundred million won\u2019t be enough. This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,\u201d Musk\u2019s email read.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Musk also forwarded an email suggesting that OpenAI should \u201cattach to Tesla as its cash cow,\u201d OpenAI said.<\/p>\n

\u201cElon soon chose to leave OpenAI, saying that our probability of success was 0, and that he planned to build an AGI competitor within Tesla,\u201d OpenAI said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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