Musk offers OpenAI leaders Founder Series Model 3s

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: July 21, 2017
To:: Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman (reply on the 'Beijing' thread)
Subject:: Re: Beijing Wants A.I. to Be Made in China by 2030 - NYTimes.com

By the way, in appreciation for what you've done to get OpenAI to where it is today, I would like to give you each a Founder Series Model 3. These are the earliest cars produced and are not available to the public. If there are a few others at OpenAI who you think also really deserve one (maybe Wojciech?), I am happy to do the same for them. Hope you like it! Elon

About this email

Minutes after agreeing to discuss a change of course for OpenAI, Musk tells Sutskever and Brockman he wants to give each of them a Founder Series Tesla Model 3 in appreciation, and offers the same for a few other deserving staff.

Notes

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. Quoted in the chain as sent 'Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:25 PM'. This part of the thread was not included in OpenAI's Dec 2024 blog post. OpenAI's summary judgment filing says Musk donated the four vehicles to OpenAI to be given to four employees as bonuses.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Musk v. Altman, Dkt. 328-55 (Ex. 51 to Wiener Declaration, Bates OPENAI_MUSK00020777)

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: tesla, model-3, gift, compensation, founders, musk-v-openai

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