OpenAI spills tea on Musk as Meta seeks block on for-profit dreams

emmjay · Dec 15, 2024

The Microsoft-backed company has published a trove of emails and conversations between Musk and OpenAI executives with quite a stunning claim. It was Musk, all along, who was allegedly chasing a for-profit status and sought the CEO role, absolute control, a merger with Tesla, and a majority equity... As the involved parties explored a for-profit arm, Musk wrote to the top OpenAI executives that he “would unequivocally have initial control of the company,” subject to change in the near future. OpenAI rejected Musk’s demands, and he eventually left, subsequently starting his own company called xAI.

Now Meta is miffed ... Meta has reportedly written a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, asking for a block on OpenAI’s pursuit of transforming into a nonprofit company.
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/openai-for-profit-elon-musk-chat-meta-block-letter/

TechBro Opensorcery heating up - back to the courtroom they go!

reasonablePrivacy · Dec 28, 2024

Elon Musk is “clearly a bully” says Sam Altman

Sam Altman said:

I don’t live inside Elon’s head, so this is a little bit of a speculation. Elon definitely did a lot to help OpenAI in the early days, and in spite of all this, I’m very grateful. And I think he’s just a sort of legendary entrepreneur.

He’s also clearly a bully, and he’s also someone who clearly likes to get in fights. Right now, it’s me. It’s been Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, lots of other people. And I think fundamentally, this is about OpenAI doing really well. Elon cares about doing really well. Elon started, and now runs, a very direct competitor that’s trying to do exactly what OpenAI does. Everything we’re doing, I believe Elon would be happy about if he were in control of the company.
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Cut from Sam Altman interview: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/20/24326272/elon-musk-is-clearly-a-bully-says-sam-altman

Whole Bari Weiss interview with Sam Altman, cut starts around 15:50: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5f7pnffU0QvWhsDXdtzwfK?si=glHVnWBWQZaNs4nJ9OJxhw
or (behind paywall) https://www.thefp.com/p/sam-altman-openai-feud-with-elon

monkeylove · Dec 30, 2024

Meta’s core argument is that OpenAI sets a dangerous precedent where a non-profit gets a fat sum in donations, builds a product or service, and then abandons its charitable roots to seek profits down the road. Of course, the social giant is also competing against OpenAI with its own Meta AI stack, so there’s that.
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