Teller: Microsoft offers $50M with no strings

From:: Sam Teller
Date:: September 20, 2016 (Sent 8:05 PM)
To:: Elon Musk
Subject:: MSFT hosting deal

Microsoft is now willing to do the agreement for a full $50m with "good faith effort at OpenAI's sole discretion" and full mutual termination rights at any time. No evangelizing. No strings attached. No looking like lame Microsoft marketing pawns. Ok to move ahead?

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Teller reports Microsoft will do the agreement for $50M with a good-faith-effort clause at OpenAI's discretion, mutual termination rights and no evangelizing, and asks if it is OK to proceed.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

Musk v. Altman (N.D. Cal., No. 4:24-cv-04722) court exhibits, as transcribed in LessWrong's 'OpenAI Email Archives'
Dkt. 32-11 (Exhibit 10 to First Amended Complaint)
CourtListener docket, Musk v. Altman

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

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