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Elon Musk: “I funded AI OpenAI for the first roughly $50 million.”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk Discusses Tesla, SpaceX, and AI at Qatar Economic Forum

Published | Video Starts at 15:51

So does that mean you are pushing ahead with the lawsuit against open AI? Yes. So I, I came up with the name OpenAI as an open source and as a nonprofit. And I funded AI OpenAI for the first roughly $50 million. And it was intended to be a nonprofit open source company. And now is they're trying to change that for their own financial benefit into a for profit company that is closed source. (15:51–15:57)

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