Altman: Amazon balked on terms; details coming

From:: Sam Altman
Date:: August 29, 2016 (Sent 10:18 AM)
To:: Elon Musk
Subject:: Re: microsoft/openAI

Amazon started really dicking us around on the T+C, especially on marketing commits. And their offering wasn't that good technically anyway. Will send you detailed terms by end of this week or so, still going back on forth on that part. So far looking clean though.

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Altman explains that Amazon was difficult on terms, especially marketing commitments, that its offering was technically weaker, and that detailed Microsoft terms will follow.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

Musk v. Altman (N.D. Cal., No. 4:24-cv-04722-YGR), Dkt. 379-38 (Exhibit 4 to Microsoft's summary judgment motion, filed Jan. 6, 2026)

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: microsoft, compute, amazon, terms, musk-v-openai

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