Elon Emails

Musk tells Neuralink it can hire 'directly from OpenAI'

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
October 2017 (MIT Technology Review gives only the year 2017; a summary of the trial exhibit list (Ex. 719) dates it October 2017.)
To:
A Neuralink cofounder (unnamed in coverage)

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

hire independently or directly from OpenAI

About this email

Musk told a Neuralink cofounder that the company could hire independently or directly from OpenAI; OpenAI's lawyers used the email at trial to argue Musk was recruiting from the nonprofit for his own companies.

Notes

Trial exhibit 719 in Musk v. Altman (2026). Only this phrase was quoted in coverage I could retrieve; the full exhibit could not be accessed.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution widely reported.

Neuralink, executive & internal. Tags: neuralink, hiring, openai, poaching, musk-v-openai

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