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ELON MUSK TRIED TO HIRE OPENAI FOUNDERS TO START AI UNIT INSIDE TESLA

arstechnica.com4 min read

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OpenAI claims that Elon Musk was always happy to commercialize the lab as long as he remained in charge. Musk had tried to hire OpenAI's founding team to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018. The deal would have brought Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to the company, with Altman becoming a board member or OpenAI becoming a Tesla subsidiary. The claim contradicts Musk's accusations of Altman stealing the charity by converting the company into a for-profit.