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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla


Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

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