Elon Musk’s Emails , Are Published by OpenAI.<br />Musk recently sued OpenAI for shifting from non-profit operations to a for-profit model. .<br />Musk recently sued OpenAI for shifting from non-profit operations to a for-profit model. .<br />Musk, an OpenAI co-founder and early investor, says he wants the company to get back to its original goal of creating AI for <br />the benefit of humanity, not revenue.<br />He also wants company co-founders <br />Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to <br />pay back any profit they received.<br />He also wants company co-founders <br />Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to <br />pay back any profit they received.<br />Now, the ChatGPT maker is calling Musk out, releasing redacted emails that seem to show him agreeing that the company needed to adopt a for-profit model to advance its projects.<br />This needs billions per year <br />immediately or forget it. <br />I really hope I’m wrong. , Elon Musk, via an email dated Dec. 26, 2018, provided by CNN.<br />He went on to suggest a $1 billion funding commitment and pledged to cover the remainder of whatever was not raised.<br />Musk ultimately contributed $45 million to OpenAI's funding, and $90 million was raised through other donors, CNN reports. .<br />He never fulfilled his promise <br />to fund the rest, CNN reports. .<br />We all understood we were going to need <br />a lot more capital to succeed at our mission — <br />billions of dollars per year, which was far <br />more than any of us, especially Elon, thought <br />we’d be able to raise as the non-profit, OpenAI, via blog post.<br />In 2019, OpenAI became a for-profit entity <br />and now has a $90 billion valuation.<br />Microsoft has committed <br />$13 billion to their cause.<br />We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone <br />whom we’ve deeply admired—someone <br />who inspired us to aim higher, then told us <br />we would fail, started a competitor, <br />and then sued us when we started <br />making meaningful progress towards <br />OpenAI’s mission without him, OpenAI, via blog post
