He was fired from YC : https://archive.ph/fLzoF https://archive.ph/fLzoF Brockman hired the top researchers with help from Yoshua Bengio. Elon Musk was the bi

He was fired from YC : https://archive.ph/fLzoF https://archive.ph/fLzoF Brockman hired the top researchers with help from Yoshua Bengio. Elon Musk was the biggest initial donor, and he is on record saying that Ilya was the key hire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#History