Musk pitches Nadella on 10,000 GPU servers for OpenAI

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: June 28, 2017
To:: Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman; cc Sam Altman
Subject:: The 10,000

Just spoke to Satya and talked about OpenAI needing one the order of 10,000 servers with the latest Nvidia GPUs to beat the best human players at competitive eSports games. This would obviously be a major opportunity for Microsoft to promote Azure relative to other cloud systems. He said he'd talk internally and get back to me soon. Please send me the ideal spec for the individual servers and how they are connected. What ideally do we want Microsoft to do? Sounds like there is a good chance they will do it.

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Musk reports that he has just spoken to Satya Nadella about OpenAI needing on the order of 10,000 servers with the latest Nvidia GPUs to beat top human esports players, pitched as an Azure marketing opportunity, and asks for the ideal server spec.

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Text taken from the PDF text layer of the court exhibit as filed on the Musk v. Altman docket (N.D. Cal. 4:24-cv-04722), via CourtListener/RECAP. Sent Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:10:58 -0700. 'one the order' is as written in the exhibit. Paragraph breaks inferred from the line layout. The same email is Ex. 11 to the Eynon Declaration (Dkt. 353).

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

Musk v. Altman, Dkt. 351-36 (Ex. 33 to Hawes Declaration, Bates 2024MUSK-0006691)

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

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