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Musk Leads Group of Investors Making a Bid for OpenAI – HotAir

You may have noticed that Elon Musk and Sam Altman don’t seem to get along, to put it mildly. Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI with Altman back in 2015 but left the open source company in 2018. Since then, OpenAI created a for profit subsidiary and started taking money from Microsoft.





Last year, Musk sued Altman and Open AI for trying to turn the company into a for-profit entity.

Mr. Musk sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, accusing them of breaching a contract by putting profits and commercial interests in developing artificial intelligence ahead of the public good. A multibillion-dollar partnership that OpenAI developed with Microsoft, Mr. Musk said, represented an abandonment of a founding pledge to carefully develop A.I. and make the technology publicly available.

“OpenAI has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary…

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