OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans

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"We're sad that it's come to this with someone whom we've deeply admired," Sam Altman and the rest of the leadership at theAccording to OpenAI:"When starting OpenAI in late 2015, Greg and Sam had initially planned to raise $100M. Elon said in an email: 'We need to go with a much bigger number than $100M to avoid sounding hopeless… I think we should say that we are starting with a $1B funding commitment… I will cover whatever anyone else doesn't provide.

It claims Musk departed the company after forwarding the execs an email suggesting that OpenAI should"attach to Tesla as its cash cow" and commenting that it was"exactly right" in February 2018. OpenAI later launched a for-profit unit, attracting approximately $13 billion in Microsoft investment.

Conspicuously absent from OpenAI's response was the word"Microsoft." Large sections of Musk's original complaint in last week's lawsuit center around the licensing of OpenAI technology to Microsoft and what rights the company may or may not have to OpenAI's AGI development.

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