Tesla<\/a> and SpaceX founder made clear that he wanted to become OpenAI’s leader if that happened.<\/p>\nAltman was the only other candidate, Brockman said.<\/p>\n
Brockman described a particularly intense meeting in which \u2060Musk said he deserved a majority stake in OpenAI because of his business experience. Musk said he intended to use that stake to build a self-sustaining city on Mars, according to Brockman.<\/p>\n
“He said he needed $80 billion to create a city” on Mars, Brockman said. “In the end, he needed full control.” Brockman added that Musk said he would decide \u200bwhen \u200bto relinquish full control.<\/p>\n
Brockman said the meeting with Musk in August 2017 started well. He \u200bsaid Musk had recently given Teslas to some OpenAI employees \u200cin gratitude for their work, and former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever painted a portrait of a Tesla to give to Musk as a token of thanks.<\/p>\n
But according to Brockman, Musk grew angry when discussing a potential equity structure for OpenAI that he didn’t like, saying “I decline.”<\/p>\n
Brockman said Musk stood up and walked over so fast he was concerned Musk would hit him, but instead Musk picked up Sutskever’s painting and stormed out, saying he would withhold new funding until matters were sorted.<\/p>\n
SPACEX GIVES MUSK INCENTIVE TO GO TO MARS<\/p>\n
Musk’s lawyers have tried to portray Brockman as also seeing dollar signs when looking at OpenAI.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Brockman \u200ctestified that his stake in OpenAI is worth almost $30 billion. He also said he holds \u200bstakes in two startups backed by Altman, and a 1% stake in Altman’s family fund.<\/p>\n
Evidence in \u200bthe case also includes a 2017 diary entry where Brockman wrote “Financially, \u200bwhat will take me to $1B?\u201d<\/p>\n
In March 2019, OpenAI restructured as a for-profit unit governed by the nonprofit, allowing it to accept \u200cmoney from outside investors.<\/p>\n
The business has since raised more than $100 billion \u200bto hire researchers, buy computing power and \u200bexpand ahead of a potential $1 trillion initial public offering this year.<\/p>\n
OpenAI has said Musk was embittered because he left its board before the company’s successes, and now wants control. It also said Musk sued to bolster his own AI company xAI, which merged with SpaceX in February.<\/p>\n
SpaceX may \u200balso go public this year, in an IPO that \u200ccould be larger than OpenAI’s.<\/p>\n
According to a registration statement, SpaceX’s board in January approved awarding Musk 200 million of super-voting restricted shares if \u200bits market value reaches $7.5 trillion and it creates a permanent colony on Mars with at least 1 million people.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman \u200bin Oakland, California and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Deepa Seetharaman and Jonathan Stempel OAKLAND, California, May 5 (Reuters) – OpenAI‘s president testified on Tuesday that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[295,262726,262177,1318,20208,70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-940322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-elon-musk","9":"tag-full-control","10":"tag-greg-brockman","11":"tag-openai","12":"tag-sam-altman","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116524568303573689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}