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even if this is true, to be fair to elon he donated to openai when it was a nonprofit and through some sketchy moves it was turned into a for-profit company whe

• jampekka 3y ago
  Not a fan of elon, but it was the bad old Micro$oft that turned OpenAI for-profit.
• danso 3y ago
  To be fair to OpenAI, Musk determined that OpenAI had irreparably lost the race to Google and proposed that he be made CEO [0]. Musk's public complaints about OpenAI being profitable were years[1] after he had decided to abandon OpenAI. > But in early 2018, Musk told Sam Altman, another OpenAI founder, that he believed the venture had fallen fatally behind Google, people familiar with the matter said. > And Musk proposed a possible solution: He would take control of OpenAI and run it himself. > Altman and OpenAI’s other founders rejected Musk’s proposal. Musk, in turn, walked away from the company — and reneged on a massive planned donation. The fallout from that conflict, culminating in the announcement of Musk’s departure on Feb 20, 2018, would shape the industry that’s changing the world, and the company at the heart of it. [0] https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor... [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034?s=20
  • sundarurfriend 3y ago
    > Musk determined That's a pretty strong way of stating what's basically hearsay from a pretty low effort article.