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Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla

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Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI’s founding team, including Sam Altman, to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018, as the AI start-up’s leaders grappled over who should control the company and its direction.

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Musk, a co-founder of the AI group, proposed bringing Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to his carmaker, appointing Altman to the board or making OpenAI a Tesla subsidiary, according to evidence in a high-stakes trial between the billionaire and the ChatGPT maker on Wednesday. The disclosures shed light on a crucial issue in the case, in which Musk has claimed that Altman “stole a charity” by converting the company into a for-profit. Emails, texts, and testimony on Wednesday showed that by late 2017 Musk had lost confidence in the non-profit OpenAI’s ability to build artificial general intelligence, a powerful form of AI—and was exploring building his own AI lab within Tesla.

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