Elon Emails

Musk: pay whatever it takes or lose to DeepMind

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
February 22, 2016 (Sent 12:09 AM)
To:
Greg Brockman (cc: Sam Altman)
Subject:
compensation framework
We need to do what it takes to get the top talent. Let's go higher. If, at some point, we need to revisit what existing people are getting paid, that's fine. Either we get the best people in the world or we will get whipped by Deepmind. Whatever it takes to bring on ace talent is fine by me. Deepmind is causing me extreme mental stress. If they win, it will be really bad news with their one mind to rule the world philosophy. They are obviously making major progress and well they should, given the talent level over there.

About this email

Musk tells Brockman to raise offers and do whatever it takes to hire top talent, saying DeepMind is causing him extreme mental stress and that its winning would be very bad.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: compensation, deepmind, recruiting, talent, competition, musk-v-openai