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📰 OpenAI’s Founding Drama: Emails Reveal Tensions

Court documents from the Musk v. Altman lawsuit unveil internal emails, highlighting OpenAI's early challenges with governance, funding, and philosophical clashes.

The inside scoop

• Early debates centered on avoiding centralized AGI control, with Ilya Sutskever warning of Musk’s preference for absolute power.

• DeepMind’s aggressive poaching led OpenAI to hike salaries by $100-200K, reflecting intense competition for top AI researchers.

• Musk pushed back on a Microsoft deal over concerns of appearing subservient, renegotiating for $50M in no-strings-attached compute power.

• Philosophical rifts over control, trust, and funding led to Musk’s exit as Altman transitioned OpenAI toward a for-profit model.

Our thoughts : OpenAI’s early days were marked by intense competition and ethical dilemmas, mirroring the high stakes of building safe AI. These emails reveal the messy but pivotal debates that shaped its mission of “AI for humanity.” The journey highlights the challenge of balancing bold ambition with collaboration.

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