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OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to merge with Tesla to create a for-profit entity


OpenAi responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit by publishing old emails from 2015 to 2018 when he was still involved in its operations.

Elon Musk, who sued OpenAI for violating its non-profit mission and chasing profits, allegedly wanted the organization to merge with Tesla when it was starting to plan its transition into a for-profit entity in order to accomplish its goals. In his lawsuit, Musk accused OpenAI of being a "closed-source de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft, which uses its AI technology for products like Bing after investing $13 billion into the company. It released an email in which Ilya Sutskever, its co-founder and chief scientist, told Musk: "As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open.

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