Musk: 'Time to make the next step for OpenAI'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: August 11, 2017
To:: Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman; cc [redacted], Shivon Zilis
Subject:: Tomorrow afternoon

[redacted] Are you guys able to meet or do a conf call tomorrow afternoon? Time to make the next step for OpenAI. This is the triggering event.

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On the night OpenAI's Dota bot beat a top professional, Musk asks the founders to meet or call the next afternoon, calling it the triggering event for OpenAI's next step.

Notes

Text taken from the LessWrong transcription (habryka, Nov 16 2024), which the compiler states was checked against the originals. Sent Aug 11, 2017 9:17 PM. The opening of the message is redacted. Published in OpenAI's Dec 2024 blog post, which ties it to the Dota 2 1v1 win at The International.

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OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: for-profit, dota, triggering-event, meeting

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